Issue #21990:  Cleanup unnecessary inner class definition in saxutils.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4cfa3c2..4702dfe 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
   socket.error() exceptions with blocking I/O errors: EAGAIN, EALREADY,
   EINPROGRESS, or EWOULDBLOCK.
 
+- Issue #21990: Clean-up unnecessary and slow inner class definition in
+  saxutils (Contributed by Alex Gaynor).
+
 - Issue #1730136: Fix the comparison between a tkFont.Font and an object of
   another kind.