public void loadFiles(List<String> files) {
        for (String path : files) {
            URL url = MappingValidator.validateURL(path, beanContainer);

            LOG.info("Using URL [" + path + "] to load custom xml mappings");

            try (InputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream())) {
                load(stream);
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                MappingUtils.throwMappingException(ex);
            }
        }
    }
Loads the collection of files into memory and parses the XML

@param files collection of file paths
core/src/main/java/com/github/dozermapper/core/builder/xml/BeanMappingXMLBuilder.java