diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 8218810d..e72868e9 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
         "ext-spl": "*",
 
         "simplesamlphp/assert": "~1.9",
-        "simplesamlphp/xml-common": "~2.3"
+        "simplesamlphp/xml-common": "~2.4"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp-test-framework": "~1.10"
diff --git a/src/Utils/XPath.php b/src/Utils/XPath.php
index f6d5adba..c762b9e8 100644
--- a/src/Utils/XPath.php
+++ b/src/Utils/XPath.php
@@ -4,12 +4,9 @@
 
 namespace SimpleSAML\XMLSecurity\Utils;
 
-use DOMDocument;
-use DOMElement;
 use DOMNode;
 use DOMXPath;
 use SimpleSAML\XMLSecurity\Constants as C;
-use SimpleSAML\XMLSecurity\Exception\RuntimeException;
 use SimpleSAML\XPath\XPath as XPathUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -23,38 +20,18 @@ class XPath extends XPathUtils
      * Get a DOMXPath object that can be used to search for XMLDSIG elements.
      *
      * @param \DOMNode $node The document to associate to the DOMXPath object.
+     * @param bool $autoregister Whether to auto-register all namespaces used in the document
      *
      * @return \DOMXPath A DOMXPath object ready to use in the given document, with the XMLDSIG namespace already
      * registered.
      */
-    public static function getXPath(DOMNode $node): DOMXPath
+    public static function getXPath(DOMNode $node, bool $autoregister = false): DOMXPath
     {
-        $xp = parent::getXPath($node);
+        $xp = parent::getXPath($node, $autoregister);
+
         $xp->registerNamespace('ds', C::NS_XDSIG);
         $xp->registerNamespace('xenc', C::NS_XENC);
-        return $xp;
-    }
-
 
-    /**
-     * Search for an element with a certain name among the children of a reference element.
-     *
-     * @param \DOMNode $ref The DOMDocument or DOMElement where encrypted data is expected to be found as a child.
-     * @param string $name The name (possibly prefixed) of the element we are looking for.
-     *
-     * @return \DOMElement|false The element we are looking for, or false when not found.
-     *
-     * @throws \SimpleSAML\XMLSecurity\Exception\RuntimeException If no DOM document is available.
-     */
-    public static function findElement(DOMNode $ref, string $name): DOMElement|false
-    {
-        $doc = $ref instanceof DOMDocument ? $ref : $ref->ownerDocument;
-        if ($doc === null) {
-            throw new RuntimeException('Cannot search, no DOMDocument available');
-        }
-
-        $nodeset = self::getXPath($doc)->query('./' . $name, $ref);
-
-        return $nodeset->item(0) ?? false;
+        return $xp;
     }
 }