diff --git a/core/java/android/util/Xml.java b/core/java/android/util/Xml.java
index 041e8a85aafec71ff2dfa4c2fb7d6b97d261ac94..e3b8fec3559eba8384c066e778b3b7d82ae88ba2 100644
--- a/core/java/android/util/Xml.java
+++ b/core/java/android/util/Xml.java
@@ -16,27 +16,27 @@
 
 package android.util;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.Reader;
-import java.io.StringReader;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import org.apache.harmony.xml.ExpatReader;
-import org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser;
+import libcore.util.XmlObjectFactory;
+
 import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
 import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
-import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+
 /**
  * XML utility methods.
  */
 public class Xml {
-    /** @hide */ public Xml() {}
+    private Xml() {}
 
     /**
      * {@link org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser} "relaxed" feature name.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public class Xml {
     public static void parse(String xml, ContentHandler contentHandler)
             throws SAXException {
         try {
-            XMLReader reader = new ExpatReader();
+            XMLReader reader = XmlObjectFactory.newXMLReader();
             reader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
             reader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
         } catch (IOException e) {
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class Xml {
      */
     public static void parse(Reader in, ContentHandler contentHandler)
             throws IOException, SAXException {
-        XMLReader reader = new ExpatReader();
+        XMLReader reader = XmlObjectFactory.newXMLReader();
         reader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
         reader.parse(new InputSource(in));
     }
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public class Xml {
      */
     public static void parse(InputStream in, Encoding encoding,
             ContentHandler contentHandler) throws IOException, SAXException {
-        XMLReader reader = new ExpatReader();
+        XMLReader reader = XmlObjectFactory.newXMLReader();
         reader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
         InputSource source = new InputSource(in);
         source.setEncoding(encoding.expatName);
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public class Xml {
      */
     public static XmlPullParser newPullParser() {
         try {
-            KXmlParser parser = new KXmlParser();
+            XmlPullParser parser = XmlObjectFactory.newXmlPullParser();
             parser.setFeature(XmlPullParser.FEATURE_PROCESS_DOCDECL, true);
             parser.setFeature(XmlPullParser.FEATURE_PROCESS_NAMESPACES, true);
             return parser;
@@ -102,25 +102,7 @@ public class Xml {
      * Creates a new xml serializer.
      */
     public static XmlSerializer newSerializer() {
-        try {
-            return XmlSerializerFactory.instance.newSerializer();
-        } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
-            throw new AssertionError(e);
-        }
-    }
-
-    /** Factory for xml serializers. Initialized on demand. */
-    static class XmlSerializerFactory {
-        static final String TYPE
-                = "org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser,org.kxml2.io.KXmlSerializer";
-        static final XmlPullParserFactory instance;
-        static {
-            try {
-                instance = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(TYPE, null);
-            } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
-                throw new AssertionError(e);
-            }
-        }
+        return XmlObjectFactory.newXmlSerializer();
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/sax/tests/saxtests/src/android/sax/ExpatPerformanceTest.java b/sax/tests/saxtests/src/android/sax/ExpatPerformanceTest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 892c49052533bd232e8f136983f82e84fa2c9814..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/sax/tests/saxtests/src/android/sax/ExpatPerformanceTest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package android.sax;
-
-import android.test.AndroidTestCase;
-import android.test.suitebuilder.annotation.LargeTest;
-import android.util.Log;
-import android.util.Xml;
-import org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
-import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
-import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-
-import com.android.frameworks.saxtests.R;
-
-public class ExpatPerformanceTest extends AndroidTestCase {
-
-    private static final String TAG = ExpatPerformanceTest.class.getSimpleName();
-
-    private byte[] mXmlBytes;
-
-    @Override
-    public void setUp() throws Exception {
-        super.setUp();
-        InputStream in = mContext.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.youtube);
-        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
-        int length;
-        while ((length = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
-            out.write(buffer, 0, length);
-        }
-        mXmlBytes = out.toByteArray();
-
-        Log.i("***", "File size: " + (mXmlBytes.length / 1024) + "k");
-    }
-
-    @LargeTest
-    public void testPerformance() throws Exception {
-//        try {
-//            Debug.startMethodTracing("expat3");
-//        for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
-            runJavaPullParser();
-            runSax();
-            runExpatPullParser();
-//        }
-//    } finally {
-//            Debug.stopMethodTracing();
-//        }
-    }
-
-    private InputStream newInputStream() {
-        return new ByteArrayInputStream(mXmlBytes);
-    }
-
-    private void runSax() throws IOException, SAXException {
-        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        Xml.parse(newInputStream(), Xml.Encoding.UTF_8, new DefaultHandler());
-        long elapsed = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
-        Log.i(TAG, "expat SAX: " + elapsed + "ms");
-    }
-
-    private void runExpatPullParser() throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
-        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        XmlPullParser pullParser = Xml.newPullParser();
-        pullParser.setInput(newInputStream(), "UTF-8");
-        withPullParser(pullParser);
-        long elapsed = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
-        Log.i(TAG, "expat pull: " + elapsed + "ms");
-    }
-
-    private void runJavaPullParser() throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
-        XmlPullParser pullParser;
-        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        pullParser = new KXmlParser();
-        pullParser.setFeature(XmlPullParser.FEATURE_PROCESS_NAMESPACES, true);
-        pullParser.setInput(newInputStream(), "UTF-8");
-        withPullParser(pullParser);
-        long elapsed = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
-        Log.i(TAG, "java pull parser: " + elapsed + "ms");
-    }
-
-    private static void withPullParser(XmlPullParser pullParser)
-            throws IOException, XmlPullParserException {
-        int eventType = pullParser.next();
-        while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
-            switch (eventType) {
-                case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
-                    pullParser.getName();
-//                        int nattrs = pullParser.getAttributeCount();
-//                        for (int i = 0; i < nattrs; ++i) {
-//                            pullParser.getAttributeName(i);
-//                            pullParser.getAttributeValue(i);
-//                        }
-                    break;
-                case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:
-                    pullParser.getName();
-                    break;
-                case XmlPullParser.TEXT:
-                    pullParser.getText();
-                    break;
-            }
-            eventType = pullParser.next();
-        }
-    }
-}