1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 3 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 4 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 5 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 6 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 7 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 8 * 9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 10 * 11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 15 * limitations under the License. 16 */ 17 18 package org.apache.commons.configuration; 19 20 /** 21 * A specialized hierarchical configuration class that is able to parse XML 22 * documents. 23 * 24 * <p>The parsed document will be stored keeping its structure. The contained 25 * properties can be accessed using all methods supported by the base class 26 * {@code HierarchicalConfiguration}. 27 * 28 * @since commons-configuration 1.0 29 * 30 * @author Jörg Schaible 31 * @version $Id: HierarchicalXMLConfiguration.java 1210002 2011-12-03 20:54:17Z oheger $ 32 * @deprecated This class is deprecated. Use {@code XMLConfiguration} 33 * instead, which supports all features this class had offered before. 34 */ 35 @Deprecated 36 public class HierarchicalXMLConfiguration extends XMLConfiguration 37 { 38 /** 39 * The serial version UID. 40 */ 41 private static final long serialVersionUID = 5597530014798917521L; 42 }