diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
index 1f7c6997514..ae8ea1cafe9 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import types
 import string
 import sys
-from xml.sax import ExpatParser
+import xml.sax
 
 #todo: SAX2/namespace handling
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ def getEvent( self ):
 
         
 def _getParser():
-     return ExpatParser()
+     return xml.sax.make_parser()
 
 default_bufsize=(2**14)-20
 # FIXME: move into sax package for common usage