diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx
index 998843f..19f9fd3 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx
@@ -24,43 +24,6 @@
 #include <cmsys/auto_ptr.hxx>
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#if defined(CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_CMAKE)
-#include "cmXMLParser.h"
-
-// parse the xml file storing the installed version of Xcode on
-// the machine
-class cmXcodeVersionParser : public cmXMLParser
-{
-public:
-  cmXcodeVersionParser(): Version("1.5") {}
-  void StartElement(const char* , const char** )
-    {
-      this->Data = "";
-    }
-  void EndElement(const char* name)
-    {
-      if(strcmp(name, "key") == 0)
-        {
-        this->Key = this->Data;
-        }
-      else if(strcmp(name, "string") == 0)
-        {
-        if(this->Key == "CFBundleShortVersionString")
-          {
-          this->Version = this->Data;
-          }
-        }
-    }
-  void CharacterDataHandler(const char* data, int length)
-    {
-      this->Data.append(data, length);
-    }
-  std::string Version;
-  std::string Key;
-  std::string Data;
-};
-#endif
-
 // Builds either an object list or a space-separated string from the
 // given inputs.
 class cmGlobalXCodeGenerator::BuildObjectListOrString
@@ -135,20 +98,34 @@ cmGlobalXCodeGenerator::cmGlobalXCodeGenerator(std::string const& version)
 cmGlobalGenerator* cmGlobalXCodeGenerator::New()
 {
 #if defined(CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_CMAKE)
-  cmXcodeVersionParser parser;
-  if (cmSystemTools::FileExists(
-       "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/version.plist"))
-    {
-    parser.ParseFile
-      ("/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/version.plist");
-    }
-  else
-    {
-    parser.ParseFile
-      ("/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/version.plist");
-    }
+  std::string developerFolderPath;
+  if (!cmSystemTools::RunSingleCommand("/usr/bin/xcode-select -print-path", &developerFolderPath, NULL, NULL, cmSystemTools::OUTPUT_NONE)) {
+    cmSystemTools::Error("Unable to determine the path to the Developer folder (using xcode-select).");
+    return NULL;
+  }
+  if (developerFolderPath[developerFolderPath.length() - 1] == '\n') {
+    developerFolderPath.erase(developerFolderPath.length() - 1, 1);
+  }
+  std::string xcodebuildPath = developerFolderPath + "/usr/bin/xcodebuild";
+  std::string xcodebuildVersionString;
+  std::vector<cmStdString> xcodebuildCommand;
+  xcodebuildCommand.push_back(xcodebuildPath);
+  xcodebuildCommand.push_back("-version");
+  if (!cmSystemTools::RunSingleCommand(xcodebuildCommand, &xcodebuildVersionString, NULL, NULL, cmSystemTools::OUTPUT_NONE)) {
+    cmSystemTools::Error(("Unable to get the version of xcodebuild (" + xcodebuildPath + ").").c_str());
+    return NULL;
+  }
+  size_t lineReturnPosition = xcodebuildVersionString.find_first_of("\n\r");
+  if (std::string::npos == lineReturnPosition) {
+    lineReturnPosition = xcodebuildVersionString.length();
+  }
+  size_t lastSpacePosition = xcodebuildVersionString.find_last_of(" \t", lineReturnPosition);
+  if (std::string::npos == lastSpacePosition) {
+    lastSpacePosition = 0;
+  }
+  std::string xcodebuildVersion = xcodebuildVersionString.substr(lastSpacePosition + 1, lineReturnPosition - lastSpacePosition - 1);
   cmsys::auto_ptr<cmGlobalXCodeGenerator>
-    gg(new cmGlobalXCodeGenerator(parser.Version));
+    gg(new cmGlobalXCodeGenerator(xcodebuildVersion));
   if (gg->XcodeVersion == 20)
     {
     cmSystemTools::Message("Xcode 2.0 not really supported by cmake, "