XML variant?

[trn1ty]

Hi, I love Lisp but was wondering if there was something like jl for XML as I prefer it to JSON. Something like

<paren><item>if</item><item><paren>
        <item>eq</item><item>foo</item><item>bar</item></paren></item>
<item><paren><item>baz</item></paren></item>
<item><paren><item>qux</item></paren></item></item></paren>

would be great, especially for the company for which I work because our 500kloc+ codebase is written specifically to handle our 12TB XML database. If we could write our code in XML it would help a lot with managing it.