diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b5ee1a13..8b6cf5e4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "minidom"
-version = "0.3.3"
+version = "0.4.0"
 authors = ["lumi <lumi@pew.im>", "Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>", "Bastien Orivel <eijebong+minidom@bananium.fr>"]
 description = "A small, simple DOM implementation on top of xml-rs."
 homepage = "https://gitlab.com/lumi/minidom-rs"
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ gitlab = { repository = "lumi/minidom-rs" }
 
 [dependencies]
 xml-rs = "0.4.1"
+error-chain = "0.10.0"
diff --git a/src/element.rs b/src/element.rs
index c77ed096..3c5c9d52 100644
--- a/src/element.rs
+++ b/src/element.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use std::collections::btree_map;
 
 use std::fmt;
 
-use error::Error;
+use error::{Error, ErrorKind, Result};
 
 use xml::reader::{XmlEvent as ReaderEvent, EventReader};
 use xml::writer::{XmlEvent as WriterEvent, EventWriter, EmitterConfig};
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Element {
 impl FromStr for Element {
     type Err = Error;
 
-    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Element, Error> {
+    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Element> {
         let mut reader = EventReader::new(Cursor::new(s));
         Element::from_reader(&mut reader)
     }
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ impl Element {
     }
 
     /// Parse a document from an `EventReader`.
-    pub fn from_reader<R: Read>(reader: &mut EventReader<R>) -> Result<Element, Error> {
+    pub fn from_reader<R: Read>(reader: &mut EventReader<R>) -> Result<Element> {
         loop {
             let e = reader.next()?;
             match e {
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ impl Element {
                     return Ok(root);
                 },
                 ReaderEvent::EndDocument => {
-                    return Err(Error::EndOfDocument);
+                    bail!(ErrorKind::EndOfDocument);
                 },
                 _ => () // TODO: may need more errors
             }
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ impl Element {
     }
 
     #[cfg_attr(feature = "cargo-clippy", allow(wrong_self_convention))]
-    fn from_reader_inner<R: Read>(&mut self, reader: &mut EventReader<R>) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    fn from_reader_inner<R: Read>(&mut self, reader: &mut EventReader<R>) -> Result<()> {
         loop {
             let e = reader.next()?;
             match e {
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ impl Element {
                     self.append_text_node(s);
                 },
                 ReaderEvent::EndDocument => {
-                    return Err(Error::EndOfDocument);
+                    bail!(ErrorKind::EndOfDocument);
                 },
                 _ => (), // TODO: may need to implement more
             }
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ impl Element {
     }
 
     /// Output a document to an `EventWriter`.
-    pub fn write_to<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut EventWriter<W>) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    pub fn write_to<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut EventWriter<W>) -> Result<()> {
         let name = if let Some(ref ns) = self.namespace {
             Name::qualified(&self.name, ns, None)
         }
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index dc818e2f..4e76c6a9 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -7,33 +7,24 @@ use std::convert::From;
 use xml::writer::Error as WriterError;
 use xml::reader::Error as ReaderError;
 
-/// An enum representing the possible errors.
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub enum Error {
-    /// An io::Error.
-    IoError(io::Error),
-    /// An error in the xml-rs `EventWriter`.
-    XmlWriterError(WriterError),
-    /// An error in the xml-rs `EventReader`.
-    XmlReaderError(ReaderError),
-    /// The end of the document has been reached unexpectedly.
-    EndOfDocument,
-}
+error_chain! {
+    foreign_links {
+        XmlWriterError(WriterError)
+            /// An error with writing an XML event, from xml::writer::EventWriter.
+        ;
+        XmlReaderError(ReaderError)
+            /// An error with reading an XML event, from xml::reader::EventReader.
+        ;
+        IoError(io::Error)
+            /// An I/O error, from std::io.
+        ;
+    }
 
-impl From<io::Error> for Error {
-    fn from(err: io::Error) -> Error {
-        Error::IoError(err)
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<WriterError> for Error {
-    fn from(err: WriterError) -> Error {
-        Error::XmlWriterError(err)
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<ReaderError> for Error {
-    fn from(err: ReaderError) -> Error {
-        Error::XmlReaderError(err)
+    errors {
+        /// En error which is returned when the end of the document was reached prematurely.
+        EndOfDocument {
+            description("the end of the document has been reached prematurely")
+            display("the end of the document has been reached prematurely")
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 9846e756..3539c99b 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
 //! ```
 
 extern crate xml;
+#[macro_use] extern crate error_chain;
 
 pub mod error;
 pub mod element;