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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.
+ */
+
+/* $Id$ */
+
+package org.apache.fop.util;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Provides helper functions for {@link java.util.List}.
+ * 
+ */
+public final class ListUtil {
+
+    private ListUtil() {
+        // Utility class.
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the last element from a list.
+     * 
+     * @param list
+     *            The list to work on
+     * @return last element
+     */
+    public static Object getLast(List list) {
+        return list.get(list.size() - 1);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve and remove the last element from a list.
+     * 
+     * @param list
+     *            The list to work on
+     * @return previous last element
+     */
+    public static Object removeLast(List list) {
+        return list.remove(list.size() - 1);
+    }
+}