code: function (filename) {
              var contents = fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf-8');
              if(contents) {
                  //Windows is the BOM. Skip the Byte Order Mark.
                  contents = contents.substring(contents.indexOf('<'));
              }
              return new et.ElementTree(et.XML(contents));
          }
docs: Parses a given file into an elementtree object