diff --git a/gollum.gemspec b/gollum.gemspec
index 192cde1e..e8caba6d 100644
--- a/gollum.gemspec
+++ b/gollum.gemspec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.extra_rdoc_files = %w[README.md LICENSE]
 
   s.add_dependency('grit', "~> 2.4.1")
-  s.add_dependency('github-markup', [">= 0.4.0", "< 1.0.0"])
+  s.add_dependency('github-markup', [">= 0.7.0", "< 1.0.0"])
   s.add_dependency('pygments.rb', "~> 0.2.0")
   s.add_dependency('posix-spawn', "~> 0.3.0")
   s.add_dependency('sinatra', "~> 1.0")
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency('RedCloth')
   s.add_development_dependency('mocha')
   s.add_development_dependency('org-ruby')
-  s.add_development_dependency('rdiscount')
   s.add_development_dependency('shoulda')
   s.add_development_dependency('rack-test')
   s.add_development_dependency('wikicloth', '~> 0.6.3')
diff --git a/lib/gollum/markup.rb b/lib/gollum/markup.rb
index f2de18f8..4daaf2cd 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/markup.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/markup.rb
@@ -53,17 +53,13 @@ module Gollum
         doc  = Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment.parse(data)
         doc  = sanitize.clean_node!(doc) if sanitize
         yield doc if block_given?
-        data = doc_to_html(doc)
+        data = doc.to_html
       end
       data = process_tex(data)
       data.gsub!(/<p><\/p>/, '')
       data
     end
 
-    def doc_to_html(doc)
-      doc.to_xhtml(:save_with => Nokogiri::XML::Node::SaveOptions::AS_XHTML)
-    end
-
     #########################################################################
     #
     # TeX