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Serialize a SystemMetadata object to an XML representation

Source: R/SystemMetadata.R
serializeSystemMetadata.Rd

The SystemMetadata object is converted to XML and written to a file.

Usage

serializeSystemMetadata(x, ...)

# S4 method for class 'SystemMetadata'
serializeSystemMetadata(x, version = "v1", ...)

Arguments

x

The SystemMetadata instance to be serialized.

...

(Not currently used)

version

A character string representing the DataONE API version that this system will be used with (e.g. "v1", "v2").

Value

A character value of the filename that the XML representation of the SystemMetadata object was written to.

the character string representing a SystemMetadata object

Details

If the 'version' parameter is specified as *v2* then the SystemMetadata object is serialized according to the DataONE version 2.0 system metadata format.

See also

SystemMetadata-class

Examples

library(XML)
doc <- xmlParseDoc(system.file("testfiles/sysmeta.xml", package="datapack"), asText=FALSE)
sysmeta <- new("SystemMetadata")
sysmeta <- parseSystemMetadata(sysmeta, xmlRoot(doc))
sysmetaXML <- serializeSystemMetadata(sysmeta, version="v2")