diff --git a/lib/oga.rb b/lib/oga.rb
index bfdc401..8498725 100644
--- a/lib/oga.rb
+++ b/lib/oga.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ require 'ast'
require 'set'
require 'stringio'
+require_relative 'oga/version'
+require_relative 'oga/oga'
+
# Load these first so that the native extensions don't have to define the
# Oga::XML namespace.
require_relative 'oga/xml/lexer'
diff --git a/lib/oga/oga.rb b/lib/oga/oga.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f40378
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/oga/oga.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+module Oga
+ ##
+ # Parses the given XML document.
+ #
+ # @example
+ # document = Oga.parse_xml('Hello')
+ #
+ # @param [String|IO] xml The XML input to parse.
+ # @return [Oga::XML::Document]
+ #
+ def self.parse_xml(xml)
+ return XML::Parser.new(xml).parse
+ end
+
+ ##
+ # Parses the given HTML document.
+ #
+ # @example
+ # document = Oga.parse_html('...')
+ #
+ # @param [String|IO] html The HTML input to parse.
+ # @return [Oga::XML::Document]
+ #
+ def self.parse_html(html)
+ return HTML::Parser.new(html).parse
+ end
+end # Oga
diff --git a/spec/oga/oga_spec.rb b/spec/oga/oga_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f42554
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/oga/oga_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe Oga do
+ context 'parse_xml' do
+ example 'parse an XML document' do
+ document = described_class.parse_xml('foo')
+
+ document.is_a?(Oga::XML::Document).should == true
+ end
+ end
+
+ context 'parse_html' do
+ example 'parse an HTML document' do
+ document = described_class.parse_xml('')
+
+ document.is_a?(Oga::XML::Document).should == true
+ end
+ end
+end