diff --git a/src/common/util/unicode.h b/src/common/util/unicode.h
index aa404a25e..1fadd0a91 100644
--- a/src/common/util/unicode.h
+++ b/src/common/util/unicode.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #endif
 
 #include <wchar.h>
+#include <libxml/xmlstring.h>
 
   extern int unicode_utf8_to_ucs4(wint_t *ucs4_character, const xmlChar *utf8_string, size_t *length);
 
diff --git a/src/config.h b/src/config.h
index 3d6872fbd..ecd3bd9b8 100644
--- a/src/config.h
+++ b/src/config.h
@@ -253,6 +253,5 @@ extern char * strdup(const char *s);
 # define INLINE_FUNCTION
 #endif
 
-typedef unsigned char xmlChar;
 #endif