diff --git a/xso/src/lib.rs b/xso/src/lib.rs
index 9d540748..9daaa2d0 100644
--- a/xso/src/lib.rs
+++ b/xso/src/lib.rs
@@ -58,27 +58,6 @@ pub use xso_proc::FromXml;
 #[cfg(feature = "macros")]
 pub use xso_proc::AsXml;
 
-/// Trait allowing to consume a struct and iterate its contents as
-/// serialisable [`rxml::Event`] items.
-///
-/// **Important:** Changing the [`EventIter`][`Self::EventIter`] associated
-/// type is considered a non-breaking change for any given implementation of
-/// this trait. Always refer to a type's iterator type using fully-qualified
-/// notation, for example: `<T as xso::IntoXml>::EventIter`.
-pub trait IntoXml {
-    /// The iterator type.
-    ///
-    /// **Important:** Changing this type is considered a non-breaking change
-    /// for any given implementation of this trait. Always refer to a type's
-    /// iterator type using fully-qualified notation, for example:
-    /// `<T as xso::IntoXml>::EventIter`.
-    type EventIter: Iterator<Item = Result<rxml::Event, self::error::Error>>;
-
-    /// Return an iterator which emits the contents of the struct or enum as
-    /// serialisable [`rxml::Event`] items.
-    fn into_event_iter(self) -> Result<Self::EventIter, self::error::Error>;
-}
-
 /// Trait allowing to iterate a struct's contents as serialisable
 /// [`Item`]s.
 ///
@@ -208,83 +187,6 @@ impl<T: FromXmlText> FromXmlText for Box<T> {
     }
 }
 
-/// Trait to convert a value to an XML text string.
-///
-/// This trait is implemented for many standard library types implementing
-/// [`std::fmt::Display`]. In addition, the following feature flags can enable
-/// more implementations:
-///
-/// - `jid`: `jid::Jid`, `jid::BareJid`, `jid::FullJid`
-/// - `uuid`: `uuid::Uuid`
-///
-/// Because of the unfortunate situation as described in [`FromXmlText`], we
-/// are **extremely liberal** with accepting optional dependencies for this
-/// purpose. You are very welcome to make merge requests against this crate
-/// adding support for parsing third-party crates.
-pub trait IntoXmlText: Sized {
-    /// Convert the value to an XML string in a context where an absent value
-    /// cannot be represented.
-    fn into_xml_text(self) -> Result<String, self::error::Error>;
-
-    /// Convert the value to an XML string in a context where an absent value
-    /// can be represented.
-    ///
-    /// The provided implementation will always return the result of
-    /// [`Self::into_xml_text`] wrapped into `Some(.)`. By re-implementing
-    /// this method, implementors can customize the behaviour for certain
-    /// values.
-    fn into_optional_xml_text(self) -> Result<Option<String>, self::error::Error> {
-        Ok(Some(self.into_xml_text()?))
-    }
-}
-
-impl IntoXmlText for String {
-    fn into_xml_text(self) -> Result<String, self::error::Error> {
-        Ok(self)
-    }
-}
-
-impl<T: IntoXmlText> IntoXmlText for Box<T> {
-    fn into_xml_text(self) -> Result<String, self::error::Error> {
-        T::into_xml_text(*self)
-    }
-}
-
-impl<T: IntoXmlText, B: ToOwned<Owned = T>> IntoXmlText for Cow<'_, B> {
-    fn into_xml_text(self) -> Result<String, self::error::Error> {
-        T::into_xml_text(self.into_owned())
-    }
-}
-
-/// Specialized variant of [`IntoXmlText`].
-///
-/// Do **not** implement this unless you cannot implement [`IntoXmlText`]:
-/// implementing [`IntoXmlText`] is more versatile and an
-/// [`IntoOptionalXmlText`] implementation is automatically provided.
-///
-/// If you need to customize the behaviour of the [`IntoOptionalXmlText`]
-/// blanket implementation, implement a custom
-/// [`IntoXmlText::into_optional_xml_text`] instead.
-pub trait IntoOptionalXmlText {
-    /// Convert the value to an XML string in a context where an absent value
-    /// can be represented.
-    fn into_optional_xml_text(self) -> Result<Option<String>, self::error::Error>;
-}
-
-impl<T: IntoXmlText> IntoOptionalXmlText for T {
-    fn into_optional_xml_text(self) -> Result<Option<String>, self::error::Error> {
-        <Self as IntoXmlText>::into_optional_xml_text(self)
-    }
-}
-
-impl<T: IntoOptionalXmlText> IntoOptionalXmlText for Option<T> {
-    fn into_optional_xml_text(self) -> Result<Option<String>, self::error::Error> {
-        self.map(T::into_optional_xml_text)
-            .transpose()
-            .map(Option::flatten)
-    }
-}
-
 /// Trait to convert a value to an XML text string.
 ///
 /// This trait is implemented for many standard library types implementing
diff --git a/xso/src/minidom_compat.rs b/xso/src/minidom_compat.rs
index 5ac68adb..b7f74ce4 100644
--- a/xso/src/minidom_compat.rs
+++ b/xso/src/minidom_compat.rs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use rxml::{
 use crate::{
     error::{Error, FromEventsError},
     rxml_util::{EventToItem, Item},
-    AsXml, FromEventsBuilder, FromXml, IntoXml,
+    AsXml, FromEventsBuilder, FromXml,
 };
 
 /// State machine for converting a minidom Element into rxml events.
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ impl IntoEventsInner {
                             return Ok(Some(Event::Text(EventMetrics::zero(), text)));
                         }
                         Some(Node::Element(el)) => {
-                            *nested = Some(Box::new(el.into_event_iter()?));
+                            *nested = Some(Box::new(IntoEvents::new(el)));
                             // fallthrough to next loop iteration
                         }
                         None => {
@@ -136,7 +136,13 @@ impl IntoEventsInner {
 /// This can be constructed from the
 /// [`IntoXml::into_event_iter`][`crate::IntoXml::into_event_iter`]
 /// implementation on [`minidom::Element`].
-pub struct IntoEvents(IntoEventsInner);
+struct IntoEvents(IntoEventsInner);
+
+impl IntoEvents {
+    fn new(el: Element) -> Self {
+        IntoEvents(IntoEventsInner::Header(el))
+    }
+}
 
 impl Iterator for IntoEvents {
     type Item = Result<Event, Error>;
@@ -146,14 +152,6 @@ impl Iterator for IntoEvents {
     }
 }
 
-impl IntoXml for Element {
-    type EventIter = IntoEvents;
-
-    fn into_event_iter(self) -> Result<Self::EventIter, Error> {
-        Ok(IntoEvents(IntoEventsInner::Header(self)))
-    }
-}
-
 enum AsXmlState<'a> {
     /// Element header: we need to generate the
     /// [`Item::ElementHeadStart`] item from the namespace and name.
@@ -425,38 +423,10 @@ where
     }
 }
 
-/// Helper struct to stream a struct which implements conversion
-/// to [`minidom::Element`].
-pub struct IntoEventsViaElement {
-    inner: IntoEvents,
-}
-
-impl IntoEventsViaElement {
-    /// Create a new streaming parser for `T`.
-    pub fn new<E, T>(value: T) -> Result<Self, crate::error::Error>
-    where
-        Error: From<E>,
-        minidom::Element: TryFrom<T, Error = E>,
-    {
-        let element: minidom::Element = value.try_into()?;
-        Ok(Self {
-            inner: element.into_event_iter()?,
-        })
-    }
-}
-
-impl Iterator for IntoEventsViaElement {
-    type Item = Result<Event, Error>;
-
-    fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
-        self.inner.next()
-    }
-}
-
 /// Helper struct to stream a struct which implements conversion
 /// to [`minidom::Element`].
 pub struct AsItemsViaElement<'x> {
-    iter: EventToItem<IntoEventsViaElement>,
+    iter: EventToItem<IntoEvents>,
     lifetime_binding: PhantomData<Item<'x>>,
 }
 
@@ -467,8 +437,9 @@ impl<'x> AsItemsViaElement<'x> {
         Error: From<E>,
         minidom::Element: TryFrom<T, Error = E>,
     {
+        let element: minidom::Element = value.try_into()?;
         Ok(Self {
-            iter: EventToItem::new(IntoEventsViaElement::new(value)?),
+            iter: EventToItem::new(IntoEvents::new(element)),
             lifetime_binding: PhantomData,
         })
     }
diff --git a/xso/src/text.rs b/xso/src/text.rs
index 767062e5..9ad3a8ea 100644
--- a/xso/src/text.rs
+++ b/xso/src/text.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use core::marker::PhantomData;
 
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 
-use crate::{error::Error, AsXmlText, FromXmlText, IntoXmlText};
+use crate::{error::Error, AsXmlText, FromXmlText};
 
 #[cfg(feature = "base64")]
 use base64::engine::{general_purpose::STANDARD as StandardBase64Engine, Engine as _};
@@ -33,16 +33,6 @@ macro_rules! convert_via_fromstr_and_display {
                 }
             }
 
-            $(
-                #[cfg(feature = $feature)]
-                #[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = $feature)))]
-            )?
-            impl IntoXmlText for $t {
-                fn into_xml_text(self) -> Result<String, Error> {
-                    Ok(self.to_string())
-                }
-            }
-
             $(
                 #[cfg(feature = $feature)]
                 #[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = $feature)))]
@@ -69,13 +59,6 @@ impl FromXmlText for bool {
     }
 }
 
-/// This provides an implementation compliant with xsd::bool.
-impl IntoXmlText for bool {
-    fn into_xml_text(self) -> Result<String, Error> {
-        Ok(self.to_string())
-    }
-}
-
 /// This provides an implementation compliant with xsd::bool.
 impl AsXmlText for bool {
     fn as_xml_text(&self) -> Result<Cow<'_, str>, Error> {