Fix small nits and remove old functions

Author: Jan Jansen

src/de/mod.rs

@@ -62,10 +62,6 @@ pub fn from_reader<'de, R: Read, T: Deserialize<'de>>(reader: R) -> Result<T> {
     T::deserialize(&mut Deserializer::new_from_reader(reader))
 }
 
-pub fn deserialize<'de, R: Read, T: Deserialize<'de>>(reader: R) -> Result<T> {
-    from_reader(reader)
-}
-
 pub struct Deserializer<R: Read> {
     depth: usize,
     reader: EventReader<R>,

src/lib.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 //!
+//!
+//! # Examples
+//!
 //! ```rust
 //! extern crate serde;
 //! extern crate serde_xml_rs;
@@ -49,5 +52,5 @@ pub mod ser;
 
 pub use error::{Error, ErrorKind};
 pub use xml::reader::{EventReader, ParserConfig};
-pub use ser::{serialize, to_string, to_writer, Serializer};
-pub use de::{deserialize, from_reader, from_str, Deserializer};
+pub use ser::{to_string, to_writer, Serializer};
+pub use de::{from_reader, from_str, Deserializer};

src/ser/mod.rs

@@ -9,48 +9,8 @@ use self::var::{Map, Struct};
 mod var;
 
 
-
-/// A convenience method for serializing some object to a buffer.
-///
-/// You'll almost always want to use this over any of the other things in the
-/// `serde_xml_rs::serialize` module.
-///
-///
-/// # Examples
-///
-/// ```rust
-/// # #[macro_use]
-/// # extern crate serde_derive;
-/// # extern crate serde;
-/// # extern crate serde_xml_rs;
-/// # use serde_xml_rs::serialize;
-/// #[derive(Serialize)]
-/// struct Person {
-///   name: String,
-///   age: u32,
-/// }
-///
-/// # fn main() {
-/// let mut buffer = Vec::new();
-/// let joe = Person {name: "Joe".to_string(), age: 42};
-///
-/// serialize(&joe, &mut buffer).unwrap();
-///
-/// let serialized = String::from_utf8(buffer).unwrap();
-/// println!("{}", serialized);
-/// # }
-/// ```
-pub fn serialize<W: Write, S: Serialize>(value: S, writer: W) -> Result<()> {
-    to_writer(writer, &value)
-}
-
-
 /// A convenience method for serializing some object to a buffer.
 ///
-/// You'll almost always want to use this over any of the other things in the
-/// `serde_xml_rs::to_writer` module.
-///
-///
 /// # Examples
 ///
 /// ```rust
@@ -83,10 +43,6 @@ pub fn to_writer<W: Write, S: Serialize>(writer: W, value: &S) -> Result<()> {
 
 /// A convenience method for serializing some object to a string.
 ///
-/// You'll almost always want to use this over any of the other things in the
-/// `serde_xml_rs::to_string` module.
-///
-///
 /// # Examples
 ///
 /// ```rust