changes from the laptop

- some should be the same as previous commit (sorry!)
- some should be new: LINT checks, ...?

data/XMLserialize.h

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+#ifndef XMLSERIALIZE_H
+#define XMLSERIALIZE_H
+
+#include "XMLload.h"
+#include "XMLsave.h"
+#include "xml.h"
+
+class XMLserialize : public XMLload, public XMLsave {
+
+public:
+
+	void loadXML(const std::string& file) {
+
+		XMLDoc doc;
+		assertOK(doc.LoadFile(file.c_str()), doc, "error while loading file");
+		XMLElem* root = doc.FirstChildElement("root");
+		readFromXML(&doc, root);
+
+	}
+
+	void saveXML(const std::string& file) {
+
+		XMLDoc doc;
+		XMLElem* root = doc.NewElement("root");
+		doc.InsertFirstChild(root);
+		writeToXML(&doc, root);
+		assertOK(doc.SaveFile(file.c_str()), doc, "error while saving file");
+
+	}
+
+public:
+
+
+	static void assertOK(XMLErr res, XMLDoc& doc, const std::string& txt) {
+		if (res != tinyxml2::XMLError::XML_SUCCESS) {
+			const std::string err = doc.ErrorName();
+			const std::string add = doc.GetErrorStr1();
+			throw Exception(txt + ": " + err + " - " + add);
+		}
+	}
+
+};
+
+#endif // XMLSERIALIZE_H