getDOMHelper() confusion

[Swanson, Brion]

I found the following snippet of code in
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.java:

public ContentHandler createResultContentHandler(
          Result outputTarget, OutputProperties format) {

      // ...code skipped...

      if (null != outputNode)
      {
            // ...more code ignored...
      }
      else
      {
        doc = getXPathContext().getDOMHelper().createDocument();
          // ...etc
        }
}

What confuses me is that I cannot find a 'getDOMHelper' method anywhere in
the Xalan 2 package.  Also, even if it did exist, the DOMHelper class claims
it is deprecated - so why is it being used to create a Document?

If anyone can help clear this up for me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,
Brion Swanson

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Brion Swanson
Software Engineer (Co-op)
West Group - Public Records
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
716-327-6164 (x6164)