diff --git a/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/XmlNodeWrapper.java b/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/XmlNodeWrapper.java
index a3fd69ad25..a8cb7c4fda 100644
--- a/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/XmlNodeWrapper.java
+++ b/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/XmlNodeWrapper.java
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ public class XmlNodeWrapper extends AbstractDomNodeProxy implements XmlNode {
         return parser.wrapDomNode(node.getChildNodes().item(index));
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public Node getChild(int index) {
+        return jjtGetChild(index);
+    }
 
     @Override
     public int jjtGetNumChildren() {
@@ -96,6 +100,11 @@ public class XmlNodeWrapper extends AbstractDomNodeProxy implements XmlNode {
     }
 
 
+    @Override
+    public int getNumChildren() {
+        return jjtGetNumChildren();
+    }
+
     @Override
     public int jjtGetId() {
         return 0;