question: protected static ConfigurationEventTypeAxiom parse ( String theString ) throws EPException { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory . newInstance ( ) ; DocumentBuilder builder ; Document document ; try { builder = factory . newDocumentBuilder ( ) ; document = builder . parse ( new InputSource ( new StringReader ( theString ) ) ) ; } catch ( ParserConfigurationException ex ) { throw new EPException ( "Could not get a DOM parser configuration" , ex ) ; } catch ( SAXException ex ) { throw new EPException ( "Could not parse configuration" , ex ) ; } catch ( IOException ex ) { throw new EPException ( "Could not read configuration" , ex ) ; } return parse ( document ) ; }
target:  Parses the configuration XML.