char *tmp; // temporarily holds strings to be given to the xml writer

	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "stor/job%d/stats.xml", job->jobnum);

	  // create xml document at the location tmp with no compression

	  writer = xmlNewTextWriterFilename(tmp, 0);

	  xmlTextWriterStartDocument(writer, NULL, "utf-8", NULL);

	  xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"stats");

	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", job->assigned_frames);

	  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"assigned_frames", (xmlChar*)tmp);

	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", job->completed_frames);

	  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"completed_frames", (xmlChar*)tmp);

	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", job->total_render_time);

	  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"total_render_time", (xmlChar*)tmp);

	  // end document

	  xmlTextWriterEndDocument(writer);

	  // free writer and save xml file to disk

	  xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);

	  return 1;

}

// returns 1 if successful

// updates job_list.xml which lists all the jobs in the queue

int updateJobListXML(struct distrenjob *head)

{

  struct distrenjob *job;

  xmlTextWriterPtr writer;

  char *tmp;

  char *tmp2;

  int counter;

  // update timestamp

  general_info.timestamp++;

  if(general_info.timestamp > 65530)

		  general_info.timestamp = 0;

  writer = xmlNewTextWriterFilename("job_list.xml", 0);

  xmlTextWriterStartDocument(writer, NULL, "utf-8", NULL);

  // create root element job_list

  xmlTextWriterStartElement(writer, (xmlChar*)"job_list");

  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "%d", general_info.timestamp);

  xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute(writer, (xmlChar*)"timestamp", (xmlChar*)tmp);

  counter = 0;

  for(job = head->next; job; job = job->next)

    {

      _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "jobnum%d", counter);

      _distren_asprintf(&tmp2, "%d", job->jobnum);

      xmlTextWriterWriteElement(writer, (xmlChar*)tmp, (xmlChar*)tmp2);

      counter++;

    }

  // close elements and end document

  xmlTextWriterEndDocument(writer);

  // free writer and save xml file to disk

  xmlFreeTextWriter(writer);

  return 1;

}

// returns 1 if completed successfully, 0 if not

// this reads a list of jobs in the queue before DistRen was shut down

// and then adds the jobs to the queue, as if it were never shut down

int createQueueFromXML(struct distrenjob *head)

{

  xmlDocPtr doc;  // holds xml document in memory

  xmlNodePtr cur; // points to the current xml element node

  // load xml document

  doc = xmlParseFile("job_list.xml");

  if(doc == NULL)

    {

      fprintf(stderr, "createQueueFromXML: document not found\n");

      return 0;

    }

  // have cur point to the root element of the xml document pointed to by doc

  cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);

  if(cur == NULL)

    {

      fprintf(stderr, "createQueueFromXML: document empty\n");

      return 0;

    }

  if(xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar*)"job_list"))

    {

      fprintf(stderr, "createQueueFromXML: incorrect root element (%s)", (char*)cur->name);

    }

  // moves into the children elements of job_list

  cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;

  reCreateQueueFromXML(head, doc, cur);

  /* scans the list of all jobs that were in queue before DistRen shutdown

  while(cur != NULL)

    {

      tmp = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);

  general_info.timestamp = 0;

  general_info.total_render_power = 0;

  general_info.total_priority_pieces = 0;

  int command;

  jobnum_t jobnum;

  struct distrenjob *tmp_job;

  struct frameset *tmp_frame;

  int type;

  char *name;

  char *submitter;

  char *email;

  int priority;

  int width;

  int height;

  int start_frame;

  int end_frame;

  size_t read_buf;

  head.priority = 0; // make head have the highest priority

  xmlinit();

  test = 0;

  for(counter = 0; counter < argc; counter ++)

    {

      if(strcmp(argv[counter], "-h") == 0)

      {

    	  fprintf(stderr, "Usage: distrend [option] \nStarts the distrend server\n\t-h\tshow this help\n\t-t\tlaunches queue testing interface \n");

		  return 2;

      }

      else if(strcmp(argv[counter], "-t") == 0)

      {

    	  fprintf(stderr, "Entering into test mode...\n\n");

		  test=1;

      }

    }

  cont = 1;

  memset(&head, '\0', sizeof(struct distrenjob));

  distrend_do_config(argc, argv, &config);

  //start_data(&head); // Starts fresh or loads data from xml dump. Should we grab the return?

  // pre-loaded jobs for testing

  prepare_distrenjob(&head, 1, "awesome", "LordOfWar", "onlylordofwar@gmail.com", 4, 1, 100, 640, 480);

  while(test == 1)

  {

    fprintf(stderr, "Welcome to DistRen Alpha Interactive Test Mode\n\n");

    fprintf(stderr, "\t1 \tPrint all frames in a job\n");

    fprintf(stderr, "\t2 \tExamine certain job\n");

    fprintf(stderr, "\t3 \tGet a frame to render\n");

    fprintf(stderr, "\t4 \tAdd a job\n");

    fprintf(stderr, "\t5 \tDelete a job\n");

    fprintf(stderr, "\t6 \tPrint jobnums in queue\n");

    fprintf(stderr, "\t7 \tQuit\n");

    scanf("%d", &command);

    switch(command)

    {

    case 1:

      fprintf(stderr, "Job number: ");

      scanf("%d", &jobnum);

      printJob(distrenjob_get(&head, jobnum));

      break;

    case 2:

      fprintf(stderr, "Job number: ");

      scanf("%d", &jobnum);

      printJobInfo(distrenjob_get(&head, jobnum));

      break;

    case 3:

      {

    	  fprintf(stderr, "frame was found, details below\n");

          fprintf(stderr, "Job#:%d\n", tmp_job->jobnum);

          fprintf(stderr, "Frame#:%d\n", tmp_frame->num);

      }

      break;

    case 4:

      name = NULL;

      submitter = NULL;

      email = NULL;

      fprintf(stderr, "\nType: \n\t 1 \t blender\n\t 2 \t povray\n"); scanf("%d", &type);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nName: ");        scanf("\n"); getline(&name, &read_buf, stdin);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nSubmitter: ");                getline(&submitter, &read_buf, stdin);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nEmail: ");                    getline(&email, &read_buf, stdin);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nPriority: ");                 scanf("%d", &priority);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nStart frame: ");              scanf("%d", &start_frame);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nEnd frame: ");                scanf("%d", &end_frame);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nWidth: ");                    scanf("%d", &width);

      fprintf(stderr, "\nHeight: ");                   scanf("%d", &height);

      prepare_distrenjob(&head, type, name, submitter, email, priority, start_frame, end_frame, width, height);

      break;

    case 5:

      fprintf(stderr, "\nJob number: ");

      scanf("%d", &jobnum);

      distrenjob_remove(&head, distrenjob_get(&head, jobnum));

      break;

    case 6:

      printAllJobnums(&head);

      break;

    case 7:

      fprintf(stderr,"Goodbye.\n");

      return 0;

    default:

      fprintf(stderr, "Invalid input, please try again.\n");

    }

  }

  distrend_listen(&listenset, config);

  /* This is called the "main loop" */

  while(cont)

    {

      struct distren_action *action;

      int clientsays = 0; /*< temporary example variable, will be replaced when we can handle messages */

      distrend_accept(&action);

      cont = distrend_do(action);