Scala supports XML literals. Meaning that this program:

outputs this:

This syntax can do more than just save you a few quotes and backslashes, however. You can use curly braces to dynamically insert expressions, as such:

Note how we don’t quote the title or href attributes; Scala knows that we are assigning XML attributes to dynamic variables (i.e. this isn’t just blind templating; it’s XML-aware). Also note how the quoted string we pass to the function gets escaped inside the attribute value.