diff --git a/capybara.gemspec b/capybara.gemspec
index f10cae0d..01977e0a 100644
--- a/capybara.gemspec
+++ b/capybara.gemspec
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_runtime_dependency('nokogiri', ['~> 1.8'])
   s.add_runtime_dependency('rack', ['>= 1.6.0'])
   s.add_runtime_dependency('rack-test', ['>= 0.6.3'])
-  s.add_runtime_dependency('xpath', ['~>3.1'])
+  s.add_runtime_dependency('xpath', ['~>3.2'])
 
   s.add_development_dependency('cucumber', ['>= 2.3.0'])
   s.add_development_dependency('erubi') # dependency specification needed by rbx
diff --git a/lib/capybara.rb b/lib/capybara.rb
index f187cde9..323b883e 100644
--- a/lib/capybara.rb
+++ b/lib/capybara.rb
@@ -414,7 +414,6 @@ module Capybara
   module RackTest; end
   module Selenium; end
 
-  require 'capybara/xpath_patches'
   require 'capybara/helpers'
   require 'capybara/session'
   require 'capybara/window'
diff --git a/lib/capybara/xpath_patches.rb b/lib/capybara/xpath_patches.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index a9ba22ed..00000000
--- a/lib/capybara/xpath_patches.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# frozen_string_literal: true
-
-module XPath
-  module DSL
-    UPPERCASE_LETTERS = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞŸŽŠŒ'
-    LOWERCASE_LETTERS = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿžšœ'
-
-    def lowercase
-      method(:translate, UPPERCASE_LETTERS, LOWERCASE_LETTERS)
-    end
-
-    def uppercase
-      method(:translate, LOWERCASE_LETTERS, UPPERCASE_LETTERS)
-    end
-  end
-end
-
-module Capybara
-  module XPathPatches
-    module Renderer
-      def attribute(current, name)
-        return super if name =~ /^[a-zA-Z_:][a-zA-Z0-9_:\.\-]*$/
-
-        "#{current}/attribute::*[local-name(.) = #{string_literal(name)}]"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
-
-XPath::Renderer.prepend(Capybara::XPathPatches::Renderer)