diff --git a/lib/taurus/xml.rb b/lib/taurus/xml.rb
index 112d850..a3bff8a 100644
--- a/lib/taurus/xml.rb
+++ b/lib/taurus/xml.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ module XML
     autoload :SAX, "taurus/xml/sax"
     require "taurus/xml/c14n"  # module-level helper, eager load
 
+    # Nokogiri-style top-level entry points (Nokogiri::XML(...) /
+    # Nokogiri::XML.parse). Delegates to Document.parse.
+    def self.parse(xml_or_io)
+      Document.parse(xml_or_io)
+    end
+
+    def self.parse_file(path)
+      Document.parse_file(path)
+    end
+
     class Error < StandardError; end
     class ParseError < Error; end
     class XPathError < Error; end
diff --git a/spec/xml/document_spec.rb b/spec/xml/document_spec.rb
index 6857264..3026c1d 100644
--- a/spec/xml/document_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/xml/document_spec.rb
@@ -173,3 +173,28 @@
     end
   end
 end
+
+RSpec.describe "Taurus::XML module entry points" do
+  it "parses via Taurus::XML.parse" do
+    doc = Taurus::XML.parse("<root><child/></root>")
+    expect(doc).to be_a(Taurus::XML::Document)
+    expect(doc.root.name).to eq("root")
+    expect(doc.root.first_element_child.name).to eq("child")
+  end
+
+  it "parses an IO via Taurus::XML.parse" do
+    require "stringio"
+    doc = Taurus::XML.parse(StringIO.new("<root/>"))
+    expect(doc.root.name).to eq("root")
+  end
+
+  it "parses a file via Taurus::XML.parse_file" do
+    require "tmpdir"
+    Dir.mktmpdir do |dir|
+      path = File.join(dir, "t.xml")
+      File.write(path, "<root>data</root>")
+      doc = Taurus::XML.parse_file(path)
+      expect(doc.root.content).to eq("data")
+    end
+  end
+end