diff --git a/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-server/pom.xml b/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-server/pom.xml
index 57a309c904b..92c5cf15abd 100644
--- a/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-server/pom.xml
+++ b/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-server/pom.xml
@@ -256,12 +256,6 @@
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency> <!-- because there are two of them above  -->
-      <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
-      <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
-      <version>${xml.apis.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.smartdata</groupId>
       <artifactId>smart-common</artifactId>
diff --git a/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-zengine/pom.xml b/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-zengine/pom.xml
index 77de445a40e..f2be27e5fea 100644
--- a/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-zengine/pom.xml
+++ b/smart-zeppelin/zeppelin-zengine/pom.xml
@@ -171,12 +171,6 @@
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency> <!-- because there are two of them above  -->
-      <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
-      <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
-      <version>${xml.apis.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
-
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jgit</groupId>
       <artifactId>org.eclipse.jgit</artifactId>