Save this execution context into an xml.dom.Element object.

def save_xml(self, doc, element):
        '''Save this execution context into an xml.dom.Element object.'''
        element.setAttributeNS(XSI_NS, XSI_NS_S + 'type', 'rtsExt:execution_context_ext')
        element.setAttributeNS(RTS_NS, RTS_NS_S + 'id', self.id)
        element.setAttributeNS(RTS_NS, RTS_NS_S + 'kind', self.kind)
        element.setAttributeNS(RTS_NS, RTS_NS_S + 'rate', str(self.rate))
        for p in self.participants:
            new_element = doc.createElementNS(RTS_NS,
                                              RTS_NS_S + 'Participants')
            p.save_xml(doc, new_element)
            element.appendChild(new_element)
        for p in self.properties:
            new_prop_element = doc.createElementNS(RTS_EXT_NS,
                                                   RTS_EXT_NS_S + 'Properties')
            properties_to_xml(new_prop_element, p, self.properties[p])
            element.appendChild(new_prop_element)