diff --git a/basis/xml/traversal/traversal.factor b/basis/xml/traversal/traversal.factor
index 6342f96e42..ce3555fe81 100644
--- a/basis/xml/traversal/traversal.factor
+++ b/basis/xml/traversal/traversal.factor
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2005, 2009 Daniel Ehrenberg
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 USING: accessors kernel namespaces sequences words io assocs
-quotations strings parser lexer arrays xml.data xml.writer
+quotations strings parser lexer arrays xml.data
 splitting vectors sequences.deep combinators fry memoize ;
 IN: xml.traversal
 
diff --git a/basis/xml/xml.factor b/basis/xml/xml.factor
index a1d734f291..ac6fbfcddc 100644
--- a/basis/xml/xml.factor
+++ b/basis/xml/xml.factor
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2005, 2009 Daniel Ehrenberg
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 USING: accessors arrays io io.encodings.binary io.files
-io.streams.string kernel namespaces sequences strings io.encodings.utf8
-xml.data xml.errors xml.elements ascii xml.entities
-xml.writer xml.state xml.autoencoding assocs xml.tokenize
-combinators.short-circuit xml.name splitting io.streams.byte-array
-combinators ;
+io.streams.string kernel namespaces sequences strings
+io.encodings.utf8 xml.data xml.errors xml.elements ascii
+xml.entities xml.state xml.autoencoding assocs xml.tokenize
+combinators.short-circuit xml.name splitting
+io.streams.byte-array combinators ;
 IN: xml
 
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