diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0e951e350..434f819af 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "vendor/harfbuzz"]
 	path = vendor/harfbuzz
 	url = https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.git
-[submodule "vendor/libxml2"]
-	path = vendor/libxml2
-	url = https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2.git
diff --git a/vendor/libxml2 b/vendor/libxml2
deleted file mode 160000
index 58de9d31d..000000000
--- a/vendor/libxml2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 58de9d31da4d0e8cb6bcf7f5e99714f9df2c4411