Scala: reference an xml literal from another xml

Question

Is it possible to reference one xml variable from another xml? E.g. is it possible to do something like this:

val foo = <foo> foo text </foo>

val bar = <bar> + foo + </bar>

so that bar will contain foo as it's child:

<bar><foo>foo text</foo></bar>

Answer 1

Try <bar>{foo}</bar>

Answer 2

You can use the following:

val bar = <bar>{foo}</bar>