diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d30a71b..3ecf5f0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ find_package(APR REQUIRED)
 # Find Apache Runtime Utilities
 find_package(APR-Util REQUIRED)
 
+# Find expat for XML parsing
+find_package(expat CONFIG REQUIRED)
+
 # Building
 add_subdirectory(src)
 
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 3e0cb17..9a450b7 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 add_subdirectory(main)
 target_compile_definitions(log4cxx PRIVATE ${LOG4CXX_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS} ${APR_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS} ${APR_UTIL_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS} )
 target_include_directories(log4cxx INTERFACE $<INSTALL_INTERFACE:include> PRIVATE ${APR_INCLUDE_DIR} ${APR_UTIL_INCLUDE_DIR})
-target_link_libraries(log4cxx PRIVATE ${APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES} ${XMLLIB_LIBRARIES} ${APR_LIBRARIES} ${APR_SYSTEM_LIBS})
+target_link_libraries(log4cxx PRIVATE ${APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES} expat::expat ${APR_LIBRARIES} ${APR_SYSTEM_LIBS})
 if(WIN32)
 # The ODBC appender is always enabled in the Windows configuration
 target_link_libraries(log4cxx PRIVATE odbc32.lib)
diff --git a/src/cmake/FindAPR-Util.cmake b/src/cmake/FindAPR-Util.cmake
index bb4e951..75093d8 100644
--- a/src/cmake/FindAPR-Util.cmake
+++ b/src/cmake/FindAPR-Util.cmake
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ if(EXISTS ${APR_UTIL_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE})
       _apu_invoke(_apu_util_link_args  --link-ld)
       string(REGEX MATCH "-L([^ ]+)" _apu_util_L_flag ${_apu_util_link_args})
       find_library(APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES NAMES libaprutil-1.a PATHS "${CMAKE_MATCH_1}")
-      _apu_invoke(XMLLIB_LIBRARIES --libs)
       set(APR_UTIL_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS APU_DECLARE_STATIC)
     else()
       _apu_invoke(APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES   --link-ld)
@@ -48,8 +47,6 @@ else()
     if (APU_STATIC OR NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
       set(APR_UTIL_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS APU_DECLARE_STATIC)
       find_library(APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES NAMES aprutil-1)
-      find_library(XMLLIB_LIBRARIES NAMES libexpat)
-      find_program(XMLLIB_DLL libexpat.dll)
     else()
       find_library(APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES NAMES libaprutil-1)
       find_program(APR_UTIL_DLL libaprutil-1.dll)
diff --git a/src/test/cpp/xml/CMakeLists.txt b/src/test/cpp/xml/CMakeLists.txt
index bddfe48..138c489 100644
--- a/src/test/cpp/xml/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/test/cpp/xml/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ add_executable(xmltests
     xmllayouttestcase
 )
 
-target_link_libraries(xmltests PRIVATE ${APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES} ${XMLLIB_LIBRARIES})
+target_link_libraries(xmltests PRIVATE ${APR_UTIL_LIBRARIES} expat::expat)
 set(ALL_LOG4CXX_TESTS ${ALL_LOG4CXX_TESTS} xmltests PARENT_SCOPE)