diff --git a/proposal/sandbox/svn/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/svn/SvnChangeLogWriter.java b/proposal/sandbox/svn/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/svn/SvnChangeLogWriter.java
index 0e09274bc..380bd22a6 100644
--- a/proposal/sandbox/svn/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/svn/SvnChangeLogWriter.java
+++ b/proposal/sandbox/svn/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/svn/SvnChangeLogWriter.java
@@ -22,12 +22,10 @@ import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.DOMElementWriter;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.util.JAXPUtils;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.DOMUtils;
 
-import org.w3c.dom.CDATASection;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.w3c.dom.Element;
-import org.w3c.dom.Text;
 
 /**
  * Class used to generate an XML changelog.
@@ -51,7 +49,7 @@ public class SvnChangeLogWriter {
     public void printChangeLog(final PrintWriter output,
                                final SvnEntry[] entries) throws IOException {
         output.println("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
-        Document doc = JAXPUtils.getDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
+        Document doc = DOMUtils.newDocument();
         Element root = doc.createElement("changelog");
         DOM_WRITER.openElement(root, output, 0, "\t");
         output.println();
@@ -77,53 +75,22 @@ public class SvnChangeLogWriter {
         Document doc = element.getOwnerDocument();
 
         Element ent = doc.createElement("entry");
-        appendTextElement(ent, "date", OUTPUT_DATE.format(entry.getDate()));
-        appendTextElement(ent, "time", OUTPUT_TIME.format(entry.getDate()));
-        appendCDATAElement(ent, "author", entry.getAuthor());
-        appendTextElement(ent, "revision", entry.getRevision());
+        DOMUtils.appendTextElement(ent, "date",
+                                   OUTPUT_DATE.format(entry.getDate()));
+        DOMUtils.appendTextElement(ent, "time",
+                                   OUTPUT_TIME.format(entry.getDate()));
+        DOMUtils.appendCDATAElement(ent, "author", entry.getAuthor());
+        DOMUtils.appendTextElement(ent, "revision", entry.getRevision());
 
         SvnEntry.Path[] paths = entry.getPaths();
         for (int i = 0; i < paths.length; i++) {
-            Element path = doc.createElement("path");
-            ent.appendChild(path);
-            appendCDATAElement(path, "name", paths[i].getName());
-            appendTextElement(path, "action", paths[i].getActionDescription());
+            Element path = DOMUtils.createChildElement(ent, "path");
+            DOMUtils.appendCDATAElement(path, "name", paths[i].getName());
+            DOMUtils.appendTextElement(path, "action",
+                                       paths[i].getActionDescription());
         }
-        appendCDATAElement(ent, "message", entry.getMessage());
+        DOMUtils.appendCDATAElement(ent, "message", entry.getMessage());
         DOM_WRITER.write(ent, output, 1, "\t");
     }
-
-    /**
-     * Creates a named element with nested text as child of the given element.
-     *
-     * @param parent the parent element
-     * @param name name of the child element
-     * @param content the content of the nested text
-     */
-    private static void appendTextElement(Element parent, String name,
-                                          String content) {
-        Document doc = parent.getOwnerDocument();
-        Element e = doc.createElement(name);
-        parent.appendChild(e);
-        Text t = doc.createTextNode(content);
-        e.appendChild(t);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Creates a named element with a nested CDATA section as child of
-     * the given element.
-     *
-     * @param parent the parent element
-     * @param name name of the child element
-     * @param content the content of the nested text
-     */
-    private static void appendCDATAElement(Element parent, String name,
-                                           String content) {
-        Document doc = parent.getOwnerDocument();
-        Element e = doc.createElement(name);
-        parent.appendChild(e);
-        CDATASection c  = doc.createCDATASection(content);
-        e.appendChild(c);
-    }
 }