diff --git a/src/LightXML.jl b/src/LightXML.jl
index cfc5d10..5a157ed 100644
--- a/src/LightXML.jl
+++ b/src/LightXML.jl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ VERSION >= v"0.4.0-dev+6521" && __precompile__()
 
 module LightXML
 
-using Compat
+using Compat; import Compat.String
 
 const libxml2 = @windows? Pkg.dir("WinRPM","deps","usr","$(Sys.ARCH)-w64-mingw32","sys-root","mingw","bin","libxml2-2") : "libxml2"
 
diff --git a/src/cdata.jl b/src/cdata.jl
index d92a7f0..582beb0 100644
--- a/src/cdata.jl
+++ b/src/cdata.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-function new_cdatanode(xdoc::XMLDocument, txt::ASCIIString)
+function new_cdatanode(xdoc::XMLDocument, txt::String)
         p = ccall((:xmlNewCDataBlock,libxml2), Xptr, (Xptr, Xstr, Cint), xdoc.ptr, txt, length(txt)+1)
         XMLNode(p)
 end
 
-add_cdata(xdoc::XMLDocument, x::XMLElement, txt::ASCIIString) = add_child(x, new_cdatanode(xdoc,txt))
+add_cdata(xdoc::XMLDocument, x::XMLElement, txt::String) = add_child(x, new_cdatanode(xdoc,txt))