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Idiom #104 Save object into XML file

Write content of object x into file data.xml. 

import orange.serialization._;
import orange.serialization.archives._;
import std.file;
auto archive = new XmlArchive!(char);
auto serializer = new Serializer(archive); 
serializer.serialize(x);
write("data.xml", archive.data);
import "encoding/xml"
import "io/ioutil"
buffer, err := xml.MarshalIndent(x, "", "  ")
if err != nil {
	return err
}
err = ioutil.WriteFile("data.xml", buffer, 0644)
require_once('XML/Serializer.php');
class Test
{
    public $f1;
    private $f2;

    public function __construct($f1, $f2)
    {
        $this->f1 = $f1;
        $this->f2 = $f2;
    }
}

$x = new Test('foo', 42);

$options = array(
  XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_INDENT        => '    ',
  XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_RETURN_RESULT => true
  );

$serializer = new XML_Serializer($options);
$result = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" . $serializer->serialize($x);
file_put_contents('data.xml', $result);
use XML::LibXML qw();
$x->toFile('data.xml');
import pyxser as pyx
# Python 2.5 to 2.7
# Use pickle or marshall module
class TestClass(object):
    a = None
    b = None
    c = None

    def __init__(self, a, b, c):
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.c = c

tst = TestClass("var_a", "var_b", "var_c")
ser = pyx.serialize(obj=tst, enc="utf-8")
print(ser)
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auto archive = new XmlArchive!(char);
auto serializer = new Serializer(archive); 
serializer.serialize(x);
write("data.xml", archive.data);
buffer, err := xml.MarshalIndent(x, "", "  ")
if err != nil {
	return err
}
err = ioutil.WriteFile("data.xml", buffer, 0644)
class Test
{
    public $f1;
    private $f2;

    public function __construct($f1, $f2)
    {
        $this->f1 = $f1;
        $this->f2 = $f2;
    }
}

$x = new Test('foo', 42);

$options = array(
  XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_INDENT        => '    ',
  XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_RETURN_RESULT => true
  );

$serializer = new XML_Serializer($options);
$result = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" . $serializer->serialize($x);
file_put_contents('data.xml', $result);
$x->toFile('data.xml');
# Python 2.5 to 2.7
# Use pickle or marshall module
class TestClass(object):
    a = None
    b = None
    c = None

    def __init__(self, a, b, c):
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.c = c

tst = TestClass("var_a", "var_b", "var_c")
ser = pyx.serialize(obj=tst, enc="utf-8")
print(ser)