diff --git a/lib/README b/lib/README
index eb11a67cf..67e37ce73 100644
--- a/lib/README
+++ b/lib/README
@@ -1,17 +1,3 @@
 Please refer to the Ant manual under Installing Ant / Library
 Dependencies for a list of the jar requirements for various optional
 tasks and features.
-
-This directory contains xercesImpl.jar from the 2.9.0 release of
-Apache Xerces.  For more information or newer releases see
-<http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/>.  Xerces is provided under the
-same license as Apache Ant itself, see the file LICENSE.  For
-additional Xerces specific notes see the file NOTICE.
-
-It also contains xml-apis.jar, an Apache-controlled collection of
-standard classes from the 1.3.04 release of the Apache XML-Commons
-release.  For more information or newer releases see
-<http://xml.apache.org/commons/>.  See the "W3CŪ SOFTWARE NOTICE AND
-LICENSE" and SAX2 notice in the file LICENSE for the terms of
-distribution.
-
diff --git a/lib/libraries.properties b/lib/libraries.properties
index 9dc30c49f..226adb0e9 100644
--- a/lib/libraries.properties
+++ b/lib/libraries.properties
@@ -53,12 +53,6 @@ oro.version=2.0.8
 regexp.version=1.3
 servlet-api.version=2.3
 which.version=1.0
-xerces.version=2.9.0
-xercesImpl.version=${xerces.version}
-#should be in sync w/ xerces, but not in the maven repository
-#xmlParserAPIs.version=${xerces.version}
-#xmlParserAPIs.version=2.6.1
-xml-apis.version=2.0.2
 xalan.version=2.7.1
 xml-resolver.version=1.2
 mail.version=1.4
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diff --git a/lib/xml-apis.jar b/lib/xml-apis.jar
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