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Open an element with the specified `name`&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balxml&lowbar;encoder&period;h&gt;`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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template&lt;class NAME&lowbar;TYPE&gt;
void
openElement(NAME&lowbar;TYPE const& name);
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