added loadString

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/library/scala/xml/XML.scala b/src/library/scala/xml/XML.scala
index 9ca2943440..37e043afbc 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/xml/XML.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/xml/XML.scala
@@ -61,10 +61,14 @@ object XML  {
   final def load( sysID:String ): scala.xml.Elem =
     new NoBindingFactoryAdapter().loadXML( new InputSource( sysID ));
 
-  /** loads XML from a given input source*/
+  /** loads XML from a given input source */
   final def load( source:InputSource ): scala.xml.Elem =
     new NoBindingFactoryAdapter().loadXML( source );
 
+  /** loads XML from a string */
+  final def loadString( string:String ): scala.xml.Elem =
+    load(new StringReader(string))
+
   /** saves XML to filename with encoding ISO-8859-1 */
   final def save( filename:String, doc:Elem ):Unit = {
     /* using NIO classes of JDK 1.4 */