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+/* ====================================================================
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You 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 org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel;
+import org.apache.poi.hssf.model.InternalWorkbook;
+
+/**
+ * Helper class for HSSF tests that aren't within the
+ *  HSSF UserModel package, but need to do internal
+ *  UserModel things.
+ */
+public class HSSFTestHelper {
+	/**
+	 * Lets non UserModel tests at the low level Workbook
+	 */
+	public static InternalWorkbook getWorkbookForTest(HSSFWorkbook wb) {
+		return wb.getWorkbook();
+	}
+}