[jdom-interest] Why Class.forName("javax.xml.transform.Transformer")?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

In JAXPDOMAdapter can somebody explain to me why the following code is 
present in the getDocument() method:

            // Try using JAXP...
            // Note we need DOM Level 2 and thus JAXP 1.1.
            Class.forName("javax.xml.transform.Transformer");

Is this just a test for JAXP 1.1? Or is something else going on? We 
don't appear to actually use the Transformer class anywhere.

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