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diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.wst.html.core/src/org/eclipse/wst/html/core/internal/validate/SMUtil.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.wst.html.core/src/org/eclipse/wst/html/core/internal/validate/SMUtil.java
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--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.wst.html.core/src/org/eclipse/wst/html/core/internal/validate/SMUtil.java
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-/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
- * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
- * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
- * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
- * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
- *
- * Contributors:
- *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
- *******************************************************************************/
-package org.eclipse.wst.html.core.internal.validate;
-
-import org.w3c.dom.Element;
-import org.w3c.dom.Node;
-
-final class SMUtil {
-
-	private SMUtil() {
-		super();
-	}
-
-	/* get an ancestor element ignoring implicit ones. */
-	public static Element getParentElement(Node child) {
-		if (child == null)
-			return null;
-
-		Node p = child.getParentNode();
-		while (p != null) {
-			if (p.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
-				return (Element) p;
-			}
-			p = p.getParentNode();
-		}
-		return null;
-	}
-}