diff --git a/jdom2.spec b/jdom2.spec
index e313029..fee0abc 100644
--- a/jdom2.spec
+++ b/jdom2.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Patch0:        0001-Adapt-build.patch
 BuildRequires: javapackages-local
 BuildRequires: ant
 BuildRequires: ant-junit
-BuildRequires: jaxen
 BuildRequires: log4j12
 
 BuildArch:     noarch
@@ -50,10 +49,12 @@ sed -i 's/\r//' LICENSE.txt README.txt
 # Unable to run coverage: use log4j12 but switch to log4j 2.x
 sed -i.coverage "s|coverage, jars|jars|" build.xml
 
+# XPath functionality is not needed
+rm -rf core/src/java/org/jdom2/xpath/
+sed -i '/import org.jdom2.xpath.XPathFactory/d' core/src/java/org/jdom2/JDOMConstants.java
+
 %build
 mkdir lib
-#build-jar-repository lib xerces-j2 xml-commons-apis jaxen junit isorelax xalan-j2 xalan-j2-serializer
-build-jar-repository lib jaxen
 ant -Dversion=%{version} -Dcompile.source=1.6 -Dcompile.target=1.6 -Dj2se.apidoc=%{_javadocdir}/java maven
 
 # Make jar into an OSGi bundle