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Author: Wim Pomp <w.pomp@nki.nl>
Date:   Mon Apr 28 20:31:35 2025 +0200

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+# ome-metadata
+
+Open Microscopy XML metadata (https://www.openmicroscopy.org/Schemas/) as a collection of Rust structs and enums, with translation to Python.
+
+## Rust
+``` 
+use std::fs::read_to_string;
+use ome_metadata::Ome;
+
+let xml = read_to_string($file)?;
+let ome: Ome = xml.parse()?;
+let image = &ome.image.unwrap()[0];
+println!("acquisition date: {:#?}", image.acquisition_date);
+```
+
+## Python
+```
+from ome_metadata import Ome
+
+with open($file) as f:
+    xml = f.read()
+ome = Ome.from_xml(xml)
+image = ome.image[0]
+print(f"acquisition date: {image.acquisition_date}")
+```
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