diff -Napur a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt	2013-09-25 13:11:53.928064551 -0400
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt	2013-09-25 13:11:57.024117844 -0400
@@ -223,8 +223,7 @@ endif ()
 
 if (USE_EXPAT)
 	add_definitions(-DGENERATEDSAXPARSER_XMLPARSER_EXPAT)
-	message("FATAL: EXPAT support not implemented")
-	# TODO:: use externals
+	set(LIBEXPAT_LIBRARIES expat)
 endif ()
 
 #adding PCRE