diff --git a/faq/project.xml b/faq/project.xml
index 2f765f32..6f62adc2 100644
--- a/faq/project.xml
+++ b/faq/project.xml
@@ -103,37 +103,4 @@
       </roles>
     </developer>
   </developers>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-jelly</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-jelly-tags-xml</artifactId>
-      <version>1.1</version>
-      <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/libs/xml/</url>
-      <properties>
-        <comment>This library is already loaded by maven's core. Be careful to use the same version number as in the core.</comment>
-      </properties>
-    </dependency>
-    <!-- core dependencies which i'd have thought Maven introduced -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>dom4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
-      <version>1.4</version>
-      <url>http://www.dom4j.org/</url>
-      <properties>
-        <comment>This library is already loaded by maven's core. Be careful to use the same version number as in the core.</comment>
-      </properties>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-      <artifactId>xmlParserAPIs</artifactId>
-      <version>2.6.2</version>
-      <url>http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/</url>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-      <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-      <version>2.6.2</version>
-      <url>http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/</url>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
 </project>