diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/DynamicContext.cs b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/DynamicContext.cs
similarity index 100%
rename from src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/DynamicContext.cs
rename to src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/DynamicContext.cs
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser.cs b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser.cs
similarity index 98%
rename from src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser.cs
rename to src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser.cs
index b31fa6a8df..0c8136421d 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser.cs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Umbraco.Core.Exceptions;
 
 namespace Umbraco.Core.Xml
@@ -11,7 +9,7 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core.Xml
     /// This is used to parse our customize Umbraco XPath expressions (i.e. that include special tokens like $site) into
     /// a real XPath statement
     /// </summary>
-    internal class UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser
+    public class UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser
     {
         /// <summary>
         /// Parses custom umbraco xpath expression
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XPathNavigatorExtensions.cs b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XPathNavigatorExtensions.cs
similarity index 98%
rename from src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XPathNavigatorExtensions.cs
rename to src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XPathNavigatorExtensions.cs
index b80836dde8..bb3b41511b 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XPathNavigatorExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XPathNavigatorExtensions.cs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core.Xml
     /// <summary>
     /// Provides extensions to XPathNavigator.
     /// </summary>
-    internal static class XPathNavigatorExtensions
+    public static class XPathNavigatorExtensions
     {
         /// <summary>
         /// Selects a node set, using the specified XPath expression.
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XmlNamespaces.cs b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XmlNamespaces.cs
similarity index 100%
rename from src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XmlNamespaces.cs
rename to src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XmlNamespaces.cs
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XmlNodeListFactory.cs b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XmlNodeListFactory.cs
similarity index 99%
rename from src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XmlNodeListFactory.cs
rename to src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XmlNodeListFactory.cs
index bc8deaab2a..0a5f2c859d 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Xml/XmlNodeListFactory.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/Xml/XmlNodeListFactory.cs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ using System.Xml.XPath;
 
 namespace Umbraco.Core.Xml
 {
-    class XmlNodeListFactory
+    public class XmlNodeListFactory
     {
         private XmlNodeListFactory() { }
 
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/XmlExtensions.cs b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/XmlExtensions.cs
similarity index 99%
rename from src/Umbraco.Core/XmlExtensions.cs
rename to src/Umbraco.Abstractions/XmlExtensions.cs
index 199e16195b..ef0132dd69 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/XmlExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Abstractions/XmlExtensions.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core
     /// <summary>
     /// Extension methods for xml objects
     /// </summary>
-    internal static class XmlExtensions
+    public static class XmlExtensions
     {
         public static bool HasAttribute(this XmlAttributeCollection attributes, string attributeName)
         {
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
index 34c2295a9f..51187a49b7 100755
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
@@ -1166,12 +1166,6 @@
     <Compile Include="..\SolutionInfo.cs">
       <Link>Properties\SolutionInfo.cs</Link>
     </Compile>
-    <Compile Include="XmlExtensions.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Xml\DynamicContext.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Xml\UmbracoXPathPathSyntaxParser.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Xml\XmlNamespaces.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Xml\XmlNodeListFactory.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Xml\XPathNavigatorExtensions.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <None Include="FileResources\BlockingWeb.config" />