diff --git a/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream.cpp b/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream.cpp
index 68c06eb0bd6..ed9a3233d10 100644
--- a/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream.cpp
@@ -49,20 +49,7 @@
 #include <qstack.h>
 #include <qbuffer.h>
 #include <qscopeguard.h>
-#ifndef QT_BOOTSTRAPPED
 #include <qcoreapplication.h>
-#else
-// This specialization of Q_DECLARE_TR_FUNCTIONS is not in qcoreapplication.h,
-// because that header depends on QObject being available, which is not the
-// case for most bootstrapped applications.
-#define Q_DECLARE_TR_FUNCTIONS(context) \
-public: \
-    static inline QString tr(const char *sourceText, const char *comment = nullptr) \
-        { Q_UNUSED(comment); return QString::fromUtf8(sourceText); } \
-    static inline QString tr(const char *sourceText, const char*, int) \
-        { return QString::fromUtf8(sourceText); } \
-private:
-#endif
 
 #include <iterator>
 #include "qxmlstream_p.h"
diff --git a/src/tools/bootstrap/CMakeLists.txt b/src/tools/bootstrap/CMakeLists.txt
index ca768e8560d..5bf537edc4e 100644
--- a/src/tools/bootstrap/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/tools/bootstrap/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -64,9 +64,6 @@ qt_internal_extend_target(Bootstrap
         ../../corelib/serialization/qjsonvalue.cpp
         ../../corelib/serialization/qjsonwriter.cpp
         ../../corelib/serialization/qtextstream.cpp
-        ../../corelib/serialization/qxmlstream.cpp
-        ../../corelib/serialization/qxmlstreamgrammar.cpp
-        ../../corelib/serialization/qxmlutils.cpp
         ../../corelib/text/qbytearray.cpp
         ../../corelib/text/qbytearraylist.cpp
         ../../corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.cpp
diff --git a/src/xml/qtxmlglobal.h b/src/xml/qtxmlglobal.h
index 9ad9dd4af1b..3c8151ba10d 100644
--- a/src/xml/qtxmlglobal.h
+++ b/src/xml/qtxmlglobal.h
@@ -41,10 +41,7 @@
 #define QTXMLGLOBAL_H
 
 #include <QtCore/qglobal.h>
-#ifndef QT_BOOTSTRAPPED
-#  include <QtXml/qtxml-config.h>
-#endif
-
+#include <QtXml/qtxml-config.h>
 #include <QtXml/qtxmlexports.h>
 
 #endif // QTXMLGLOBAL_H