diff --git a/pylti/__init__.py b/pylti/__init__.py
index 34216af..1e53832 100644
--- a/pylti/__init__.py
+++ b/pylti/__init__.py
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 PyLTI is module that implements IMS LTI in python
 The API uses decorators to wrap function with LTI functionality.
 """
-VERSION = "0.1.1"
+VERSION = "0.1.3"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/pylti/common.py b/pylti/common.py
index 108d384..2a25419 100644
--- a/pylti/common.py
+++ b/pylti/common.py
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 
 import oauth2
 import oauth.oauth as oauth
-from lxml import etree
-
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
 
 log = logging.getLogger('pylti.common')  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
@@ -282,6 +281,8 @@ def generate_request_xml(message_identifier_id, operation,
         language.text = 'en'
         text_string = etree.SubElement(result_score, 'textString')
         text_string.text = score.__str__()
+    ret = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>\n{}".format(
+        etree.tostring(root, encoding='utf-8'))
     log.debug("XML Response: \n{}".format(
-        etree.tostring(root, xml_declaration=True, encoding='utf-8')))
-    return etree.tostring(root, xml_declaration=True, encoding='utf-8')
+        ret))
+    return ret
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9d63603..02df0c9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ pytest-cache==1.0
 pytest-cov==1.8.0
 pytest-flakes==0.2
 pytest-pep8==1.0.6
-
+httplib2==0.9
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index da3309b..e880934 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
                                 "oauthlib>=0.6.3", "semantic_version>=2.3.1"],
                  cmdclass={"test": PyTest},
                  install_requires=["oauth>=1.0.1", "oauth2>=1.5.211",
-                                   "lxml>=3.4.0", ],
+                     "httplib2>=0.9" ],
                  include_package_data=True,
                  zip_safe=False)
 except ImportError: