Add base classes and utilites to represent Libvirt XML documents

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+package org.openslx.libvirt.xml;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * Serializability of a Libvirt XML object from/to its XML representation.
+ * 
+ * @author Manuel Bentele
+ * @version 1.0
+ */
+public interface LibvirtXmlCreatable
+{
+	/**
+	 * Serializing an object from its XML representation.
+	 * 
+	 * @param xmlNode The object's XML representation.
+	 */
+	void fromXmlNode( Node xmlNode );
+
+	/**
+	 * Serializing the object to its XML representation.
+	 * 
+	 * @return XML representation of the object.
+	 */
+	Node toXmlNode();
+}