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Open the reader to decode XML from the file with the specified `filename`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_decoder.h>`

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int
open(char const* filename);
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== Description

Open the associated `Reader` object (see `Reader::open`) to read XML data from the file with the specified `filename`. Return 0 on success and non‐zero otherwise.

== Return Value

0 on success and non‐zero otherwise

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *filename*
| path of the XML file to open
|===


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