      * restores the XML settings to their previous values.
      *
      * @param fn a function to be called with no arguments.
-     * @param settings any custom XML settings, or null to use the defaults.
+     * @param settings an Object containing your desired XML settings, or null (or omitted) to
+     * use the default settings.
      *
      * @return the return value of your function, if any.
      * @see XML#setSettings()

     * this method will protect other code from being broken by you.
     *
     * @param value the value to parse into XML.
     * @param settings an Object containing your desired non-standard XML parsing settings.
     * @see XML#setSettings()
     */
    public static function newXML (value :Object, settings :Object = null) :XML

     * broken by you.
     *
     * @param xml the xml value to Stringify.
     * @param settings an Object containing your desired XML settings, or null (or omitted) to
     * use the default settings.
     * @see XML#toXMLString()
     * @see XML#setSettings()
     */
