diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cece4ba3..90c03325 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@
 - **BREAKING**: Remove deprecated `loadDocument` API and obsolete
   `DocumentCache`.
 - **BREAKING**: Remove deprecated support for parsing legacy dataset format.
+- **BREAKING**: RDFa parser moved to `jsonld-rdfa` package.
 
 ## 1.8.1 - 2019-10-24
 
diff --git a/lib/Rdfa.js b/lib/Rdfa.js
deleted file mode 100644
index d4c23617..00000000
--- a/lib/Rdfa.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,140 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2017 Digital Bazaar, Inc. All rights reserved.
- */
-/* global Node, XMLSerializer */
-'use strict';
-
-const {
-  RDF_LANGSTRING,
-  RDF_PLAIN_LITERAL,
-  RDF_OBJECT,
-  RDF_XML_LITERAL,
-  XSD_STRING,
-} = require('./constants');
-
-let _Node;
-if(typeof Node !== 'undefined') {
-  _Node = Node;
-} else {
-  _Node = {
-    ELEMENT_NODE: 1,
-    ATTRIBUTE_NODE: 2,
-    TEXT_NODE: 3,
-    CDATA_SECTION_NODE: 4,
-    ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE: 5,
-    ENTITY_NODE: 6,
-    PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE: 7,
-    COMMENT_NODE: 8,
-    DOCUMENT_NODE: 9,
-    DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE: 10,
-    DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE: 11,
-    NOTATION_NODE: 12
-  };
-}
-
-module.exports = class Rdfa {
-  /**
-   * Parses the RDF dataset found via the data object from the RDFa API.
-   *
-   * @param data the RDFa API data object.
-   *
-   * @return the RDF dataset.
-   */
-  parse(data) {
-    const dataset = {};
-    dataset['@default'] = [];
-
-    const subjects = data.getSubjects();
-    for(let si = 0; si < subjects.length; ++si) {
-      const subject = subjects[si];
-      if(subject === null) {
-        continue;
-      }
-
-      // get all related triples
-      const triples = data.getSubjectTriples(subject);
-      if(triples === null) {
-        continue;
-      }
-      const predicates = triples.predicates;
-      for(const predicate in predicates) {
-        // iterate over objects
-        const objects = predicates[predicate].objects;
-        for(let oi = 0; oi < objects.length; ++oi) {
-          const object = objects[oi];
-
-          // create RDF triple
-          const triple = {};
-
-          // add subject
-          if(subject.indexOf('_:') === 0) {
-            triple.subject = {type: 'blank node', value: subject};
-          } else {
-            triple.subject = {type: 'IRI', value: subject};
-          }
-
-          // add predicate
-          if(predicate.indexOf('_:') === 0) {
-            triple.predicate = {type: 'blank node', value: predicate};
-          } else {
-            triple.predicate = {type: 'IRI', value: predicate};
-          }
-
-          // serialize XML literal
-          let value = object.value;
-          if(object.type === RDF_XML_LITERAL) {
-            // initialize XMLSerializer
-            const XMLSerializer = getXMLSerializerClass();
-            const serializer = new XMLSerializer();
-            value = '';
-            for(let x = 0; x < object.value.length; x++) {
-              if(object.value[x].nodeType === _Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
-                value += serializer.serializeToString(object.value[x]);
-              } else if(object.value[x].nodeType === _Node.TEXT_NODE) {
-                value += object.value[x].nodeValue;
-              }
-            }
-          }
-
-          // add object
-          triple.object = {};
-
-          // object is an IRI
-          if(object.type === RDF_OBJECT) {
-            if(object.value.indexOf('_:') === 0) {
-              triple.object.type = 'blank node';
-            } else {
-              triple.object.type = 'IRI';
-            }
-          } else {
-            // object is a literal
-            triple.object.type = 'literal';
-            if(object.type === RDF_PLAIN_LITERAL) {
-              if(object.language) {
-                triple.object.datatype = RDF_LANGSTRING;
-                triple.object.language = object.language;
-              } else {
-                triple.object.datatype = XSD_STRING;
-              }
-            } else {
-              triple.object.datatype = object.type;
-            }
-          }
-          triple.object.value = value;
-
-          // add triple to dataset in default graph
-          dataset['@default'].push(triple);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    return dataset;
-  }
-};
-
-function getXMLSerializerClass() {
-  if(typeof XMLSerializer === 'undefined') {
-    return require('xmldom').XMLSerializer;
-  }
-  return XMLSerializer;
-}
diff --git a/lib/jsonld.js b/lib/jsonld.js
index 9aaa7133..d6eea661 100644
--- a/lib/jsonld.js
+++ b/lib/jsonld.js
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ const IdentifierIssuer = util.IdentifierIssuer;
 const JsonLdError = require('./JsonLdError');
 const LRU = require('lru-cache');
 const NQuads = require('./NQuads');
-const Rdfa = require('./Rdfa');
 
 const {expand: _expand} = require('./expand');
 const {flatten: _flatten} = require('./flatten');
@@ -989,9 +988,6 @@ jsonld.unregisterRDFParser = function(contentType) {
 jsonld.registerRDFParser('application/n-quads', NQuads.parse);
 jsonld.registerRDFParser('application/nquads', NQuads.parse);
 
-// register the RDFa API RDF parser
-jsonld.registerRDFParser('rdfa-api', Rdfa.parse);
-
 /* URL API */
 jsonld.url = require('./url');
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7052d173..0154fb8e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@
     "object.fromentries": "^2.0.2",
     "rdf-canonize": "^2.0.1",
     "request": "^2.88.0",
-    "semver": "^6.3.0",
-    "xmldom": "0.1.19"
+    "semver": "^6.3.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/cli": "^7.7.5",
@@ -86,8 +85,8 @@
   },
   "keywords": [
     "JSON",
-    "Linked Data",
     "JSON-LD",
+    "Linked Data",
     "RDF",
     "Semantic Web",
     "jsonld"
@@ -124,7 +123,6 @@
     "jsonld-request": false,
     "request": false,
     "url": false,
-    "util": false,
-    "xmldom": false
+    "util": false
   }
 }