Additional ways to load properties?

Chris,
In looking at the XMLApplicationContext, currently the only way to load properties into the configuration is via the property element that points to a file (uri). Can some additional ways be added as well? Like addPropertiesFromEmbed(clazz) (bytearray of text) as well as just addProperties(textString:String)

Basically it would be nice to have the addProperties* methods that are the equivlent of the available ones for XML configs (location, XML, embed class)