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Idiom #103 Load XML file into object

Read from the file data.xml and write its contents into the object x.
Assume the XML data is suitable for the type of x. 

import lxml.etree
x = lxml.etree.parse('data.xml')

Use "pip install" to get this third-party library. It's industry standard for python xml.
using System.Xml.Linq;
XDocument x = XDocument.Load("data.xml");
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x = lxml.etree.parse('data.xml')
XDocument x = XDocument.Load("data.xml");


XmlArchive archive = new XmlArchive!(char);
archive.doc.parse(read("data.xml"));
Serializer ser = new Serializer(archive);
ser.deserialize(x);
buffer, err := os.ReadFile("data.xml")
if err != nil {
	return err
}
err = xml.Unmarshal(buffer, &x)
if err != nil {
	return err
}
def x = new XmlSlurper().parse(new File('data.xml'))
(let ((x (plump:parse #p"data.xml")))
  ...)
my $x = XML::LibXML->load_xml(
location => 'data.xml');
val xml = XML.loadFile("data.xml")