diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlWriter.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlWriter.java
index 6c72fa81b..111173d9f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlWriter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlWriter.java
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.exc.StreamWriteException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.io.CharacterEscapes;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.io.DataOutputAsStream;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.io.SegmentedStringWriter;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.util.ByteArrayBuilder;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DatabindException;