diff --git a/Android.bp b/Android.bp
index a5da97bfc2492..3c47d1bb3cbbd 100644
--- a/Android.bp
+++ b/Android.bp
@@ -1635,6 +1635,5 @@ filegroup {
         "core/java/com/android/internal/util/State.java",
         "core/java/com/android/internal/util/StateMachine.java",
         "core/java/com/android/internal/util/UserIcons.java",
-        "core/java/com/android/internal/util/XmlUtils.java",
     ],
 }
diff --git a/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/Sms7BitEncodingTranslator.java b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/Sms7BitEncodingTranslator.java
index 2cdf2f63e02f9..dcea9bb72c015 100644
--- a/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/Sms7BitEncodingTranslator.java
+++ b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/Sms7BitEncodingTranslator.java
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import android.telephony.Rlog;
 import android.util.SparseIntArray;
 
 import com.android.internal.telephony.cdma.sms.UserData;
-import com.android.internal.util.XmlUtils;
+import com.android.internal.telephony.util.XmlUtils;
 
 import dalvik.annotation.compat.UnsupportedAppUsage;
 
diff --git a/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/util/XmlUtils.java b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/util/XmlUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..72c5d3a8e31bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/util/XmlUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.android.internal.telephony.util;
+
+import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
+import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/** Utility methods for XML operations. */
+public final class XmlUtils {
+    private XmlUtils() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Moves parser to the first start tag, and expects the tag name being {@code firstElementName}.
+     */
+    public static void beginDocument(XmlPullParser parser, String firstElementName)
+            throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
+        int type;
+        while ((type = parser.next()) != parser.START_TAG && type != parser.END_DOCUMENT) {
+            // no-op
+        }
+
+        if (type != parser.START_TAG) {
+            throw new XmlPullParserException("No start tag found");
+        }
+
+        if (!parser.getName().equals(firstElementName)) {
+            throw new XmlPullParserException("Unexpected start tag: found " + parser.getName()
+                    + ", expected " + firstElementName);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Moves parser to the next start tag.
+     */
+    public static void nextElement(XmlPullParser parser)
+            throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
+        int type;
+        while ((type = parser.next()) != parser.START_TAG && type != parser.END_DOCUMENT) {
+            // no-op
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Moves parser to the next start tag within the {@code outerDepth}.
+     */
+    public static boolean nextElementWithin(XmlPullParser parser, int outerDepth)
+            throws IOException, XmlPullParserException {
+        for (;;) {
+            int type = parser.next();
+            if (type == XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT
+                    || (type == XmlPullParser.END_TAG && parser.getDepth() == outerDepth)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            if (type == XmlPullParser.START_TAG && parser.getDepth() == outerDepth + 1) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}