diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b423f30..b85cc40 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ edition = "2018"
 [dependencies]
 failure = "0.1"
 libxml = { git = "https://github.com/KWARC/rust-libxml.git" }
-reqwest = { version = "0.10.0-alpha.2", features = ["json"] }
-tokio = { version = "=0.2.0-alpha.6" }
+reqwest = { version = "0.10", features = ["json", "native-tls"] }
+tokio = { version = "=0.2", features = ["macros"] }
 url = "2.1"
 regex = "1.3"
 encoding_rs = "0.8"
diff --git a/src/images/mod.rs b/src/images/mod.rs
index e2d2b54..33f2dc9 100644
--- a/src/images/mod.rs
+++ b/src/images/mod.rs
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ mod tests {
     use std::fs;
     use std::io::Write;
 
-    #[tokio::test]
+    #[tokio::test(basic_scheduler)]
     async fn close_tags() {
         let image_dowloader = ImageDownloader::new((2048, 2048));
         let hdyleaflet = fs::read_to_string(r"./resources/tests/planetGnome/fedora31.html")
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index a331c25..e3c7c22 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -392,7 +392,14 @@ impl ArticleScraper {
 
     fn strip_id_or_class(context: &Context, id_or_class: &String) -> Result<(), ScraperError> {
         let xpath = &format!("//*[contains(@class, '{}') or contains(@id, '{}')]", id_or_class, id_or_class);
-        let node_vec = Self::evaluate_xpath(context, xpath, false)?;
+
+        let mut ancestor = xpath.clone();
+        if ancestor.starts_with("//") {
+            ancestor = ancestor.chars().skip(2).collect();
+        }
+
+        let query = &format!("{}[not(ancestor::{})]", xpath, ancestor);
+        let node_vec = Self::evaluate_xpath(context, query, false)?;
         for mut node in node_vec {
             node.unlink();
         }
@@ -725,7 +732,7 @@ impl ArticleScraper {
 mod tests {
     use crate::*;
     
-    #[tokio::test]
+    #[tokio::test(basic_scheduler)]
     async fn golem() {
         let config_path = PathBuf::from(r"./resources/tests/golem");
         let out_path = PathBuf::from(r"./test_output");
@@ -739,7 +746,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(article.author, Some(String::from("Hauke Gierow")));
     }
 
-    #[tokio::test]
+    #[tokio::test(basic_scheduler)]
     async fn phoronix() {
         let config_path = PathBuf::from(r"./resources/tests/phoronix");
         let out_path = PathBuf::from(r"./test_output");