diff --git a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx b/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx
index 1a436ce1dac9..73c76b33791d 100644
--- a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx
+++ b/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.cxx
@@ -1730,8 +1730,7 @@ OOXMLFastContextHandlerTable::createFastChildContext
 {
     addCurrentChild();
 
-    mCurrentChild.set
-        (OOXMLFastContextHandler::createFastChildContext(Element, Attribs));
+    mCurrentChild.set(OOXMLFastContextHandler::createFastChildContext(Element, Attribs));
 
     return mCurrentChild;
 }
@@ -1758,8 +1757,8 @@ void OOXMLFastContextHandlerTable::lcl_endFastElement
 
 void OOXMLFastContextHandlerTable::addCurrentChild()
 {
-    OOXMLFastContextHandler * pHandler = mCurrentChild.getPointer();
-    if ( pHandler != NULL)
+    OOXMLFastContextHandler * pHandler = dynamic_cast<OOXMLFastContextHandler*>(mCurrentChild.get());
+    if (pHandler != NULL)
     {
         OOXMLValue::Pointer_t pValue(pHandler->getValue());
 
diff --git a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.hxx b/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.hxx
index f8f26384ae15..bb9d378459e3 100644
--- a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.hxx
+++ b/writerfilter/source/ooxml/OOXMLFastContextHandler.hxx
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 #include "OOXMLParserState.hxx"
 #include "OOXMLPropertySetImpl.hxx"
 #include "OOXMLDocumentImpl.hxx"
-#include "RefAndPointer.hxx"
 #include <ooxml/OOXMLFastTokens.hxx>
 #include <svtools/embedhlp.hxx>
 
@@ -61,8 +60,6 @@ class OOXMLFastContextHandler:
         xml::sax::XFastContextHandler>
 {
 public:
-    typedef RefAndPointer<XFastContextHandler, OOXMLFastContextHandler>
-    RefAndPointer_t;
     typedef boost::shared_ptr<OOXMLFastContextHandler> Pointer_t;
 
     enum ResourceEnum_t { UNKNOWN, STREAM, PROPERTIES, TABLE, SHAPE };
@@ -423,7 +420,7 @@ public:
 protected:
     OOXMLTableImpl mTable;
 
-    RefAndPointer_t mCurrentChild;
+    uno::Reference<XFastContextHandler> mCurrentChild;
 
     virtual void lcl_endFastElement(Token_t Element)
         throw (uno::RuntimeException, xml::sax::SAXException) SAL_OVERRIDE;
diff --git a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/RefAndPointer.hxx b/writerfilter/source/ooxml/RefAndPointer.hxx
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f45eda6704c..000000000000
--- a/writerfilter/source/ooxml/RefAndPointer.hxx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
-/*
- * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
- *
- * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
- * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
- * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
- *
- * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
- *
- *   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 .
- */
-
-#ifndef INCLUDED_WRITERFILTER_SOURCE_OOXML_REFANDPOINTER_HXX
-#define INCLUDED_WRITERFILTER_SOURCE_OOXML_REFANDPOINTER_HXX
-
-#include <iostream>
-#include <com/sun/star/lang/XUnoTunnel.hpp>
-
-namespace writerfilter {
-namespace ooxml
-{
-
-template <class Interface, class ChildClass>
-class RefAndPointer
-{
-    mutable ChildClass * mpHandler;
-    mutable css::uno::Reference<Interface> mRef;
-
-public:
-    RefAndPointer()
-    : mpHandler(NULL)
-    {
-    }
-
-    RefAndPointer(ChildClass * pHandler)
-    : mpHandler(pHandler), mRef(pHandler)
-    {
-#ifdef DEBUG_MEMORY
-        std::clog << "MEMORY:" << mpHandler->getInstanceNumber() << ":RefAndPointer"
-             << std::endl;
-#endif
-    }
-
-    RefAndPointer(css::uno::Reference<Interface> xRef)
-    : mRef(xRef)
-    {
-        mpHandler = dynamic_cast<ChildClass *>(xRef.get());
-#ifdef DEBUG_MEMORY
-        if (mpHandler != NULL)
-            std::clog << "MEMORY:" << mpHandler->getInstanceNumber()
-                 << ":RefAndPointer" << std::endl;
-#endif
-    }
-
-    virtual ~RefAndPointer()
-    {
-#ifdef DEBUG_MEMORY
-        if (mpHandler != NULL)
-            std::clog << "MEMORY:" << mpHandler->getInstanceNumber()
-                 << ":~RefAndPointer" << std::endl;
-#endif
-    }
-
-    void set(ChildClass * pHandler)
-    {
-        mpHandler = pHandler;
-        mRef = pHandler;
-    }
-
-    void set(css::uno::Reference<Interface> xHandler)
-    {
-        mpHandler = dynamic_cast<ChildClass*>(xHandler.get());
-        mRef = xHandler;
-    }
-
-    ChildClass * getPointer() const { return mpHandler; }
-    const css::uno::Reference<Interface> getRef() const { return mRef; }
-
-    RefAndPointer & operator=
-    (const RefAndPointer & rSrc)
-    {
-        set(rSrc.getHandler());
-
-        return *this;
-    }
-
-    bool is() { return getRef().is(); }
-
-    operator ChildClass* () { return getPointer(); }
-    operator css::uno::Reference<Interface> () { return getRef(); }
-};
-}}
-#endif // INCLUDED_WRITERFILTER_SOURCE_OOXML_REFANDPOINTER_HXX
-
-/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */