it has been used for a long time, and one cannot just replace it with the non-static parse method, without setting the "ant.projectHelper" reference. PR: 32668 Reported by: Nell Gawor git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@277187 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68master