diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f7ac6e6dc..61e440de5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ dependencies = [
     'pydantic~=1.10,>=1.10.8',
     'packaging',
     'qe-tools~=2.0',
-    'xmlschema~=1.2,>=1.2.5'
+    'xmlschema~=2.0'
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_raw/cp.py b/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_raw/cp.py
index b9ac545e8..c7118ee96 100644
--- a/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_raw/cp.py
+++ b/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_raw/cp.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
-
-from xmlschema.etree import ElementTree
+from xml.etree import ElementTree
 
 from aiida_quantumespresso.parsers import QEOutputParsingError
 from aiida_quantumespresso.parsers.parse_xml.cp.legacy import parse_cp_xml_output
diff --git a/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_xml/pw/parse.py b/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_xml/pw/parse.py
index 5f77a99e1..41171818d 100644
--- a/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_xml/pw/parse.py
+++ b/src/aiida_quantumespresso/parsers/parse_xml/pw/parse.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-from xmlschema.etree import ElementTree
+from xml.etree import ElementTree
 
 from aiida_quantumespresso.parsers.parse_xml.exceptions import XMLParseError
 from aiida_quantumespresso.parsers.parse_xml.parse import parse_xml_post_6_2