diff --git a/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/SdlValue.java b/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/SdlValue.java
index 93f8c90..6c2ae19 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/SdlValue.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/SdlValue.java
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ public class SdlValue<T> {
     private final T value;
     private final SdlType type;
 
+    /**
+     * Purposely package-private, this constructor is called internally
+     * by {@link SDL#value}
+     * @param value the Java type for this SDL value
+     * @param type the SdlType for this object
+     */
     SdlValue(final T value, final SdlType type) {
         this.value=value;
         this.type = type;
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/Tag.java b/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/Tag.java
index 6e42891..ab1d30a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/Tag.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/singingbush/sdl/Tag.java
@@ -353,10 +353,13 @@ public class Tag implements Serializable {
 	/**
 	 * Creates an empty tag.
 	 *
+     * @deprecated As of release 2.0.2, use {@link SDL#tag(String)} instead.
+     * This constructor will be made package-private in a future release
 	 * @param name The name of this tag
 	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the name is not a legal SDL
 	 *     identifier.  See {@link SDL#validateIdentifier(String)}
 	 */
+	@Deprecated
 	public Tag(String name) {
 		this("", name);
 	}
@@ -365,12 +368,15 @@ public Tag(String name) {
 	 * Creates an empty tag in the given namespace.  If the namespace is null
 	 * it will be coerced to an empty String.
 	 *
+     * @deprecated As of release 2.0.2, use {@link SDL#tag(String)} instead.
+     * This constructor will be made package-private in a future release
 	 * @param namespace The namespace for this tag
 	 * @param name The name of this tag
 	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the name is not a legal SDL
 	 *     identifier (see {@link SDL#validateIdentifier(String)}) or the
 	 *     namespace is non-blank and is not a legal SDL identifier.
 	 */
+	@Deprecated
 	public Tag(@NotNull final String namespace, @NotNull final String name) {
 		if(namespace != null && !namespace.isEmpty()) {
             SDL.validateIdentifier(namespace);