diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index aee8d549..6074430c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "support/node-o3-xml"]
-	path = support/node-o3-xml
-	url = git://github.com/ajaxorg/node-o3-xml.git
 [submodule "support/cockpit"]
 	path = support/cockpit
 	url = git://github.com/ajaxorg/cockpit.git
diff --git a/support/node-o3-xml b/support/node-o3-xml
deleted file mode 160000
index 563a2b10..00000000
--- a/support/node-o3-xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 563a2b1091bd1b9a7d26a9f597aacb4341edb619