parse

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/jdom.rb, line 32
    def parse(data)
      if data.respond_to?(:read)
        data = data.read
      end

      if data.blank?
        {}
      else
        @dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.new_instance
        xml_string_reader = StringReader.new(data)
        xml_input_source = InputSource.new(xml_string_reader)
        doc = @dbf.new_document_builder.parse(xml_input_source)
        merge_element!({}, doc.document_element)
      end
    end