001/* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 018package org.apache.commons.configuration; 019 020/** 021 * A specialized hierarchical configuration class that is able to parse XML 022 * documents. 023 * 024 * <p>The parsed document will be stored keeping its structure. The contained 025 * properties can be accessed using all methods supported by the base class 026 * {@code HierarchicalConfiguration}. 027 * 028 * @since commons-configuration 1.0 029 * 030 * @author Jörg Schaible 031 * @version $Id: HierarchicalXMLConfiguration.java 1210002 2011-12-03 20:54:17Z oheger $ 032 * @deprecated This class is deprecated. Use {@code XMLConfiguration} 033 * instead, which supports all features this class had offered before. 034 */ 035@Deprecated 036public class HierarchicalXMLConfiguration extends XMLConfiguration 037{ 038 /** 039 * The serial version UID. 040 */ 041 private static final long serialVersionUID = 5597530014798917521L; 042}