int counter;

  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.jobs_in_queue);

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

  counter = 0;

    {

      _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);

  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));

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

  distrend_do_config(argc, argv, &config);

  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");

  dj->next = NULL;

  dj->name = (char *)NULL;

  dj->submitter = (char *)NULL;

  dj->email = (char *)NULL;

  dj->jobnum = 0; /*< @todo there should be a central jobnum allocator and a way to save the maximum jobnumber allocated */

  dj->priority = 0;

  dj->width = 0;

  dj->height = 0;

  dj->completed_frames = 0;

  dj->assigned_frames = 0;

  dj->total_render_time = 0;

  dj->hibernate = 0;

  dj->frameset = (struct frameset *)NULL; /*< @todo does frameset need to be initialized here? */

  return 0;

}

/**

   writes struct from xml

*/

int xml2distrenjob(struct distrenjob **distrenjob, char *pathtoxml)

{

  struct distrenjob *dj;