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);

  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;