diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 4e1ffa15d9..230fb17ba6 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -189,9 +189,6 @@ under the License.
     <property name="ooxml.curvesapi.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/curvesapi-1.05.jar"/>
     <property name="ooxml.curvesapi.url"
               value="${repository.m2}/maven2/com/github/virtuald/curvesapi/1.05/curvesapi-1.05.jar"/>
-    <property name="ooxml.xmlbeans23.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar"/>
-    <property name="ooxml.xmlbeans23.url"
-              value="${repository.m2}/maven2/org/apache/xmlbeans/xmlbeans/2.3.0/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar"/>
     <property name="ooxml.xmlbeans26.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar"/>
     <property name="ooxml.xmlbeans26.url"
               value="${repository.m2}/maven2/org/apache/xmlbeans/xmlbeans/2.6.0/xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar"/>
@@ -596,6 +593,7 @@ under the License.
                 <include name="ooxml-security-1.0.jar"/>
                 <include name="curvesapi-1.03.jar"/>
                 <include name="curvesapi-1.04.jar"/>
+                <include name="xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar"/>
             </fileset>
             <fileset dir="${compile.lib}">
                 <include name="xercesImpl-*.jar"/>
@@ -678,7 +676,6 @@ under the License.
             <or>
                 <and>
                     <available file="${ooxml.curvesapi.jar}"/>
-                    <available file="${ooxml.xmlbeans23.jar}"/>
                     <available file="${ooxml.xmlbeans26.jar}"/>
                 </and>
                 <isset property="disconnected"/>
@@ -688,12 +685,8 @@ under the License.
     <target name="fetch-ooxml-jars" depends="check-ooxml-jars" unless="ooxml.jars.present">
         <mkdir dir="${ooxml.lib}"/>
         <downloadfile src="${ooxml.curvesapi.url}" dest="${ooxml.curvesapi.jar}"/>
-        <downloadfile src="${ooxml.xmlbeans23.url}" dest="${ooxml.xmlbeans23.jar}.orig"/>
         <downloadfile src="${ooxml.xmlbeans26.url}" dest="${ooxml.xmlbeans26.jar}.orig"/>
         <!-- remove piccolo parser, so we don't use unsafe calls to it instead of using jaxp -->
-        <zip destfile="${ooxml.xmlbeans23.jar}">
-            <zipfileset src="${ooxml.xmlbeans23.jar}.orig" excludes="org/apache/xmlbeans/impl/piccolo/**"/>
-        </zip>
         <zip destfile="${ooxml.xmlbeans26.jar}">
             <zipfileset src="${ooxml.xmlbeans26.jar}.orig" excludes="org/apache/xmlbeans/impl/piccolo/**"/>
         </zip>
@@ -802,7 +795,7 @@ under the License.
 
             <taskdef name="xmlbean"
                      classname="org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.tool.XMLBean"
-                     classpath="${ooxml.xmlbeans23.jar}.orig"/>
+                     classpath="${ooxml.xmlbeans26.jar}.orig"/>
 
             <property name="xmlbean.xsds.dir" location="build/xmlbean-xsds"/>
             <property name="xmlbean.sources.dir" location="build/xmlbean-sources"/>
@@ -833,7 +826,7 @@ under the License.
                     nopvr="@{nopvr}"
                     >
                 <classpath>
-                    <path location="${ooxml.xmlbeans23.jar}.orig"/>
+                    <path location="${ooxml.xmlbeans26.jar}.orig"/>
                 </classpath>
             </xmlbean>