diff --git a/mysql-connector-java.spec b/mysql-connector-java.spec
index 269900c..0fbe32a 100644
--- a/mysql-connector-java.spec
+++ b/mysql-connector-java.spec
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ capabilities of MySQL.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1 -C
-sed -i 's/>@.*</>%{version}</' src/build/misc/pom.xml
+
+# xmlstarlet ed -L -N pom="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" -u "/project/version" -v "8.0.33" src/build/misc/pom.xml
+%pom_xpath_set 'pom:project/pom:version' %{version} src/build/misc/pom.xml
+
 # We currently need to disable jboss integration because of missing jboss-common-jdbc-wrapper.jar (built from sources).
 # See BZ#480154 and BZ#471915 for details.
 rm -rf src/main/user-impl/java/com/mysql/cj/jdbc/integration/jboss