diff --git a/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/internal/XmlParserImpl.java b/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/internal/XmlParserImpl.java
index cab0908204..aaa17c9fd3 100644
--- a/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/internal/XmlParserImpl.java
+++ b/pmd-xml/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/ast/internal/XmlParserImpl.java
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ public class XmlParserImpl {
     /**
      * The root should implement {@link RootNode}.
      */
-    static class RootXmlNode extends XmlNodeWrapper implements RootNode {
+    public static class RootXmlNode extends XmlNodeWrapper implements RootNode {
         RootXmlNode(XmlParserImpl parser, Node domNode) {
             super(parser, domNode);
         }
diff --git a/pmd-xml/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/XmlParsingHelper.java b/pmd-xml/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/XmlParsingHelper.java
index d35c521d30..8faa47e547 100644
--- a/pmd-xml/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/XmlParsingHelper.java
+++ b/pmd-xml/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/xml/XmlParsingHelper.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ package net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.xml;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.ast.test.BaseParsingHelper;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.pom.PomLanguageModule;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.wsdl.WsdlLanguageModule;
-import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.xml.ast.XmlParser.RootXmlNode;
+import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.xml.ast.internal.XmlParserImpl.RootXmlNode;
 
 /**
  * @author Clément Fournier