From c2b3f2bdb164dc884efc5903ce807f7698f5dd94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "John J. Aylward" <john.aylward@spacenet.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:21:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] adds back in the XML.stringToValue method, but deprecates it.

---
 XML.java | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/XML.java b/XML.java
index c0e84f0..a45ef15 100644
--- a/XML.java
+++ b/XML.java
@@ -295,6 +295,18 @@ public class XML {
             }
         }
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * This method has been deprecated in favor of the
+     * {@link JSONObject.stringToValue(String)} method. Use it instead.
+     * 
+     * @deprecated Use {@link JSONObject#stringToValue(String)} instead.
+     * @param string
+     * @return JSON value of this string or the string
+     */
+    public static Object stringToValue(String string) {
+        return JSONObject.stringToValue(string);
+    }
 
     /**
      * Convert a well-formed (but not necessarily valid) XML string into a