Merge pull request #18 from cjschneider2/master

add `xml_str_to_json` function

src/lib.rs

@@ -372,7 +372,12 @@ fn xml_to_map(e: &Element, config: &Config) -> Value {
 
 /// Converts the given XML string into `serde::Value` using settings from `Config` struct.
 pub fn xml_string_to_json(xml: String, config: &Config) -> Result<Value, Error> {
-    let root = Element::from_str(xml.as_str())?;
+    xml_str_to_json(xml.as_str(), config)
+}
+
+/// Converts the given XML string into `serde::Value` using settings from `Config` struct.
+pub fn xml_str_to_json(xml: &str, config: &Config) -> Result<Value, Error> {
+    let root = Element::from_str(xml)?;
     Ok(xml_to_map(&root, config))
 }