question: public Element rootFromFile ( File file ) throws JDOMException , IOException { if ( log . isDebugEnabled ( ) ) { log . debug ( "reading xml from file: " + file . getPath ( ) ) ; } FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream ( file ) ; try { return getRoot ( verify , fs ) ; } finally { fs . close ( ) ; } }
target:  Read a File as XML, and return the root object. Exceptions are only thrown when local recovery is impossible.