StringGrid to XML Output

[Gizmo]

I have a series of StringGrids. At the end of execution, my program saves their content to a series of csv files, like so :

MyStringGrid.SaveToCSVFile(Output.csv);

Is there an equally straight forward way using a built-in method in Freepascal Lazarus to achieve an XML compliant output, e.g:

MyStringGrid.SaveToXMLFile(Output.xml);

http://wiki.freepascal.org/XML_Tutorial seems to suggest it is not at all as straight forward as that but I wanted to ask in case there was a solution?

[jesusr]

What is wrong with Grid.SaveToFile? it produces a XML compliant output.

[mirce.vladimirov]

I didn't know about this feature, so i tried it immediately , but the generated file had no data.
This is what i did in my program :

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DBGrid1.SaveToFile('myfile.txt');
And there's the complete output:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CONFIG>
  <grid version="3">
    <saveoptions create="False" position="False"/>
  </grid>
</CONFIG>
I used a DBGrid, and the dbgrid was populated with lots of records and columns.