diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f350409..b11919e 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Notes
 This README might be slightly outdated. You can help by submitting a pull request.
 
 Exception handling
---------------
+------------------
 
 The methods of this library might throw client or server errors. An error is 
 an exception coming from the proven
diff --git a/orcid/orcid.py b/orcid/orcid.py
index 9bd79ff..8557fe5 100644
--- a/orcid/orcid.py
+++ b/orcid/orcid.py
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 """Implementation of python-orcid library."""
 
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import requests
-import simplejson as json
+import json
 import sys
-from lxml import etree
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
 if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
     from urllib import urlencode
     string_types = basestring,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 52ebef8..d504cf6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
       ],
       cmdclass={'test': PyTest},
       description='A python wrapper over the ORCID API',
-      install_requires=['html5lib', 'beautifulsoup4', 'requests', 'simplejson', 'lxml'],
+      install_requires=['html5lib', 'beautifulsoup4', 'requests'],
       keywords=['orcid', 'api', 'wrapper'],
       license='BSD',
       long_description=open('README.rst', 'r').read(),