diff --git a/gxml/Attr.vala b/gxml/Attr.vala
index 1995d4eefc32124125497c578efac7e2ad25e6c4..4620d06a661655b7cc34501cad2a6dd15ab9e61f 100644
--- a/gxml/Attr.vala
+++ b/gxml/Attr.vala
@@ -86,6 +86,6 @@ public class GXml.Attr : GXml.Node, GXml.DomAttr {
     _parent = element;
     _local_name = name;
     _node_value = null;
-    prop = new GomStringRef (element as GomObject, name);
+    prop = new StringRef (element as GomObject, name);
   }
 }
diff --git a/gxml/Element.vala b/gxml/Element.vala
index 42f9216f4349f745e62b0f9e6a6bf2c1d3c7191a..974add2f0ac53e44b73f63bb18d1f0fc0e6ad7e4 100644
--- a/gxml/Element.vala
+++ b/gxml/Element.vala
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ public class GXml.Element : GXml.Node,
         string name = pspec.get_nick ().replace ("::", "");
         var p = _attributes.get (name.down ());
         if (p == null) {
-          GomProperty prop = new GomStringRef (this, name);
+          GomProperty prop = new StringRef (this, name);
           _attributes.add_reference (name);
         }
       }
diff --git a/gxml/GomStringRef.vala b/gxml/StringRef.vala
similarity index 91%
rename from gxml/GomStringRef.vala
rename to gxml/StringRef.vala
index 1a202c7c2d5a88e77081277844de44b25c160756..e2355e7efc98e89ddee3b237d9c3d1cb43cfbc4a 100644
--- a/gxml/GomStringRef.vala
+++ b/gxml/StringRef.vala
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  * Authors:
  *      Daniel Espinosa <esodan@gmail.com>
  */
-public class GXml.GomStringRef : Object, GomProperty {
+public class GXml.StringRef : Object, GomProperty {
   GomObject object;
   string name;
   public string? value {
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public class GXml.GomStringRef : Object, GomProperty {
     }
   }
   public bool validate_value (string? val) { return true; }
-  public GomStringRef (GomObject obj, string name)  {
+  public StringRef (GomObject obj, string name)  {
       object = obj;
       this.name = name;
   }
diff --git a/gxml/meson.build b/gxml/meson.build
index 1eb6e4cc53c06d4dc6d19c9f04acf3e813dbb997..64591c61e8e2d04f88537bf8cb43d15909043856 100644
--- a/gxml/meson.build
+++ b/gxml/meson.build
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ valasources = files ([
 	'Event.vala',
 	'GomObject.vala',
 	'GomProperty.vala',
-	'GomStringRef.vala',
 	'gxml-init.vala',
 	'HashMap.vala',
 	'HashPairedMap.vala',
@@ -70,6 +69,7 @@ valasources = files ([
 	'Parser.vala',
 	'Range.vala',
 	'SettableTokenList.vala',
+	'StringRef.vala',
 	'Text.vala',
 	'TokenList.vala',
 	'XAttribute.vala',