diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 4576f68c..bfe528ea 100755
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
   "keywords": ["module", "xp"],
   "require" : {
     "xp-framework/core": "^12.0 | ^11.0 | ^10.0",
-    "xp-framework/xml" : "^12.0 | ^11.0 | ^10.0",
     "php" : ">=7.0.0"
   },
   "require-dev" : {
diff --git a/src/main/php/img/io/XMPSegment.class.php b/src/main/php/img/io/XMPSegment.class.php
index 82dccf4e..f4d18d6c 100755
--- a/src/main/php/img/io/XMPSegment.class.php
+++ b/src/main/php/img/io/XMPSegment.class.php
@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
 <?php namespace img\io;
 
-use xml\dom\Document;
+use DOMDocument;
+use lang\FormatException;
 
-
-/**
- * XMP/XAP meta data segment
- * 
- */
+/** XMP/XAP meta data segment */
 class XMPSegment extends Segment {
-  protected $document= null;
+  public $source;
+  private $document= null;
 
   /**
    * Creates a segment instance
    *
    * @param string $marker
-   * @param xml.dom.Document document
+   * @param string $source
    */
-  public function __construct($marker, Document $document) {
+  public function __construct($marker, $source) {
     parent::__construct($marker, null);
-    $this->document= $document;
+    $this->source= $source;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -31,15 +29,25 @@ public function __construct($marker, Document $document) {
   public static function read($marker, $bytes) {
 
     // Begin parsing after 28 bytes - strlen("http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/")
-    return new self($marker, Document::fromString(trim(substr($bytes, 28), "\x00")));
+    return new self($marker, trim(substr($bytes, 28), "\x00"));
   }
 
   /**
    * Gets XML document
    *
-   * @return xml.dom.Document
+   * @return DOMDocument
+   * @throws lang.FormatException if parsing the XML fails
    */
   public function document() {
+    if (null === $this->document) {
+      $this->document= new DOMDocument();
+      if (false === $this->document->loadXML($this->source)) {
+        $this->document= null;
+        $e= new FormatException('Cannot parse XMP/XAP segment');
+        \xp::gc(__FILE__);
+        throw $e;
+      }
+    }
     return $this->document;
   }
 
@@ -49,7 +57,7 @@ public function document() {
    * @return string
    */
   public function toString() {
-    return nameof($this).'<'.$this->marker.'>'.\xp::stringOf($this->document);
+    return nameof($this).'('.$this->marker.')'.$this->source;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -62,7 +70,7 @@ public function equals($cmp) {
     return (
       $cmp instanceof self &&
       $cmp->marker === $this->marker &&
-      $cmp->document->equals($this->document)
+      $cmp->source === $this->source
     );
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/php/img/unittest/MetaDataReaderTest.class.php b/src/test/php/img/unittest/MetaDataReaderTest.class.php
index b282350e..ff3a989f 100755
--- a/src/test/php/img/unittest/MetaDataReaderTest.class.php
+++ b/src/test/php/img/unittest/MetaDataReaderTest.class.php
@@ -1,17 +1,12 @@
 <?php namespace img\unittest;
 
+use DOMDocument;
 use img\ImagingException;
 use img\io\{CommentSegment, MetaDataReader, SOFNSegment, XMPSegment};
 use test\{Assert, Before, Expect, Test};
-use xml\Node;
 
-/**
- * TestCase for MetaDataReader class
- *
- * @see  xp://img.io.MetaDataReader
- */
 class MetaDataReaderTest {
-  protected $fixture;
+  private $fixture;
 
   /**
    * Sets up this unittest 
@@ -108,7 +103,9 @@ public function com_segment() {
   public function xmp_segment() {
     $segments= $this->extractFromFile('xmp.jpg')->segmentsOf('img.io.XMPSegment');
     $this->assertArrayOf('img.io.XMPSegment', 1, $segments);
-    Assert::instance(Node::class, $segments[0]->document()->getElementsByTagName('dc:title')[0]);
+
+    Assert::matches('/^<.+/', $segments[0]->source);
+    Assert::instance(DOMDocument::class, $segments[0]->document());
   }
 
   #[Test]