There are ways around it like that. For example, I'm trying to get in the habit of using ~.s in printf's where it might occur. But, I think it would be easy in this case to just fix the real problem. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">10 minutes ago, Doug Williams wrote: > Maybe this is general question or observation, but I specifically > have the problem with the xml module in Racket. All of the > structures defined in collects/xml/private/structures.rkt are > transparent. Most of my xml files are hundreds of thousands of bytes > to tens of megabytes in size. Needless to say, if any of these make > it to a display statement, it isn't pretty. Actually, since the > structures also include location information, the result can be (is) > larger than the actual XML was. </div>If this is printout on the repl then maybe `pretty-print-depth' is the right answer? -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: <a href="http://barzilay.org/" target="_blank">http://barzilay.org/</a> Maze is Life! </blockquote></div>