diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8b5c5551..c7a7a7cb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.github.pjfanning</groupId>
     <artifactId>excel-streaming-reader</artifactId>
-    <version>5.1.2-20251222_talend</version>
+    <version>5.1.2-20260113_talend</version>
     <name>excel-streaming-reader</name>
     <description>Streaming Excel reader</description>
     <url>https://github.com/pjfanning/excel-streaming-reader</url>
@@ -90,6 +90,21 @@
             <version>2.9.2</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sf.saxon</groupId>
+            <artifactId>Saxon-HE</artifactId>
+            <version>11.4</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents.client5</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents.core5</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/pjfanning/xlsx/XmlUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/github/pjfanning/xlsx/XmlUtils.java
index 57d00b3d..10e59540 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/pjfanning/xlsx/XmlUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/pjfanning/xlsx/XmlUtils.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.github.pjfanning.xlsx;
 
 import com.github.pjfanning.xlsx.exceptions.ParseException;
+import net.sf.saxon.xpath.XPathFactoryImpl;
 import org.apache.poi.ooxml.util.DocumentHelper;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ public static Document readDocument(InputStream inp) throws IOException, SAXExce
 
   public static NodeList searchForNodeList(Document document, String xpath) throws ParseException {
     try {
-      XPath xp = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
+      XPath xp = new XPathFactoryImpl().newXPath();
       xp.setNamespaceContext(transitionalFormatNamespaceContext);
       NodeList nl = (NodeList)xp.compile(xpath).evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET);
       if (nl.getLength() == 0) {