*
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    public static PluginDescriptor fromXml(@Nonnull String xml) throws XmlReaderException {
        return new DefaultPluginXmlFactory().fromXmlString(xml);
    }

    /**

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.maven.api.services.xml.XmlReaderException;
import org.apache.maven.api.services.xml.XmlReaderRequest;
import org.apache.maven.building.Source;
import org.apache.maven.building.StringSource;
import org.apache.maven.internal.impl.DefaultToolchainsXmlFactory;