Adding a test to illustrate how to get the root element.

test/fixture/input01.xml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<example>
+<example foo="bar">
 	<animals>
 		<dog name="Fluffy"/>
 		<dog name="Max"/>

test/root-test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+var nodeunit = require('nodeunit');
+var path = require('path');
+var xml2object = require('../lib/xml2object');
+
+exports.testRoot = function(test){
+	test.expect(2);
+
+	var parser = new xml2object(['example'], path.normalize(__dirname + '/fixture/input01.xml'));
+	var found = [];
+
+	parser.on('object', function(name, obj) {
+		found.push(obj.foo);
+	});
+
+	parser.on('end', function() {
+		test.equal(found.length, 1, "Should have found two objects");
+		test.equal(found[0], 'bar', 'foobar mismatch');
+
+		test.done();
+	});
+
+	parser.start();
+};