diff --git a/Modules/expat/xmltok.c b/Modules/expat/xmltok.c
index 5b93571874..af349884ae 100644
--- a/Modules/expat/xmltok.c
+++ b/Modules/expat/xmltok.c
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@
         + ((((byte)[1]) & 3) << 1) + ((((byte)[2]) >> 5) & 1)]                 \
    & (1u << (((byte)[2]) & 0x1F)))
 
-#define UTF8_GET_NAMING(pages, p, n)                                           \
-  ((n) == 2                                                                    \
-       ? UTF8_GET_NAMING2(pages, (const unsigned char *)(p))                   \
-       : ((n) == 3 ? UTF8_GET_NAMING3(pages, (const unsigned char *)(p)) : 0))
 
 /* Detection of invalid UTF-8 sequences is based on Table 3.1B
    of Unicode 3.2: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr28/
diff --git a/Modules/expat/xmltok_impl.c b/Modules/expat/xmltok_impl.c
index 0430591b42..64a3b2c15d 100644
--- a/Modules/expat/xmltok_impl.c
+++ b/Modules/expat/xmltok_impl.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
   case BT_LEAD##n:                                                             \
     if (end - ptr < n)                                                         \
       return XML_TOK_PARTIAL_CHAR;                                             \
-    if (! IS_NAME_CHAR(enc, ptr, n)) {                                         \
+    if (IS_INVALID_CHAR(enc, ptr, n) || ! IS_NAME_CHAR(enc, ptr, n)) {         \
       *nextTokPtr = ptr;                                                       \
       return XML_TOK_INVALID;                                                  \
     }                                                                          \
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
   case BT_LEAD##n:                                                             \
     if (end - ptr < n)                                                         \
       return XML_TOK_PARTIAL_CHAR;                                             \
-    if (! IS_NMSTRT_CHAR(enc, ptr, n)) {                                       \
+    if (IS_INVALID_CHAR(enc, ptr, n) || ! IS_NMSTRT_CHAR(enc, ptr, n)) {       \
       *nextTokPtr = ptr;                                                       \
       return XML_TOK_INVALID;                                                  \
     }                                                                          \
@@ -1142,6 +1142,10 @@ PREFIX(prologTok)(const ENCODING *enc, const char *ptr, const char *end,
   case BT_LEAD##n:                                                             \
     if (end - ptr < n)                                                         \
       return XML_TOK_PARTIAL_CHAR;                                             \
+    if (IS_INVALID_CHAR(enc, ptr, n)) {                                        \
+      *nextTokPtr = ptr;                                                       \
+      return XML_TOK_INVALID;                                                  \
+    }                                                                          \
     if (IS_NMSTRT_CHAR(enc, ptr, n)) {                                         \
       ptr += n;                                                                \
       tok = XML_TOK_NAME;                                                      \
