XMLParser (Commons JXPath 1.3 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DocumentContainer, DOMParser, JDOMParser, XMLParser2
```
public interface XMLParser
```
Common interface for XML parsers. We are not using JAXP because some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant.

Version:

$Revision: 652845 $ $Date: 2008-05-02 12:46:46 -0500 (Fri, 02 May 2008) $

Author:

Dmitri Plotnikov

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Object`	`parseXML(InputStream stream)`	Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model, which is not necessarily DOM.

- Method Detail
  - parseXML
```
Object parseXML(InputStream stream)
```
    Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model, which is not necessarily DOM.
    
    Parameters:
    
    stream - InputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    Object