function dom = xml2dom( file )
%XML2DOM Parse an XML document and return a Document Object Model node
%
%See also DUMP

% Author: Ivan E. Cao-Berg (icaoberg@cmu.edu)
% Created: May 8, 2007
% Last Update: March 2, 2008
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try
   dom = xmlread( file );
catch
   error( 'CellOrganizer: Failed to read XML file %s.', filename );
end
end%xml2dom
