diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 53c0a281a57529b704531016223c877c6e0ee9b3..a23afb3e5323af35293e65390e4eaab377b0ac6c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ tokio-io = "0.1"
 tokio-codec = "0.1"
 bytes = "0.4.9"
 xml5ever = "0.12"
-tendril = "0.4"
 minidom = "0.9"
 # TODO: update to 0.2.0
 native-tls = "0.1"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 3ae6405f3d5ccf533c5a63ecf66ee7b558afd8ac..40da556890fdeab3bfb29f5889f2d08f6aead900 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ extern crate tokio_io;
 extern crate tokio_codec;
 extern crate bytes;
 extern crate xml5ever;
-extern crate tendril;
 extern crate quick_xml;
 extern crate minidom;
 extern crate native_tls;