Deprecate Parser.Parser()

Author: garydgregory

src/changes/changes.xml

@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate JXPathIntrospector.JXPathIntrospector().</action>
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate InfoSetUtil.InfoSetUtil().</action>
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate Constants.Constants().</action>
+      <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate Parser.Parser().</action>
       <!-- ADD -->
       <action issue="JXPATH-123" dev="mbenson" type="add">
         XPath function "ends-with" is not implemented (although "starts-with" is).

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jxpath/ri/Parser.java

@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@
 import org.apache.commons.jxpath.ri.parser.XPathParser;
 
 /**
- * XPath parser
+ * XPath parser.
  */
 public class Parser {
 
     private static final XPathParser PARSER = new XPathParser(new StringReader(""));
-
+    
     /**
      * Add escapes to the specified String.
      * 
@@ -83,4 +83,14 @@ public static Object parseExpression(final String expression, final Compiler com
             return expr;
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new instance.
+     *
+     *@deprecated Will be private in the next major version.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public Parser() {
+        // empty
+    }
 }