--- a/gnv-artifacts/src/main/java/de/intevation/gnv/utils/ArtifactXMLUtilities.java	Wed Oct 28 16:26:03 2009 +0000
+++ b/gnv-artifacts/src/main/java/de/intevation/gnv/utils/ArtifactXMLUtilities.java	Thu Oct 29 15:58:47 2009 +0000
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 import de.intevation.artifacts.ArtifactNamespaceContext;
@@ -141,5 +142,22 @@
         reportNode.appendChild(successNode);
         return document;
     }
+    
+    public Node readConfiguration(String fileName){
+        try {
+            DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+            factory.setValidating(false); 
+            return factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(fileName).getChildNodes().item(0);
+        } catch (SAXException e) {
+            log.error(e,e);
+            return null;
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            log.error(e,e);
+            return null;
+        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
+            log.error(e,e);
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
 
 }