diff --git a/nuldc/helpers.py b/nuldc/helpers.py
index 5d4bb7c..1bdcabf 100644
--- a/nuldc/helpers.py
+++ b/nuldc/helpers.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 retries = urllib3.Retry(total=5,
                         backoff_factor=1,
                         status_forcelist=[429, 500, 502, 503, 504],
-                        method_whitelist=['GET', 'POST'])
+                        allowed_methods=['GET', 'POST'])
 
 session = requests.Session()
 adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries)
@@ -176,8 +176,17 @@ def save_as_csv(headers, values, output_file):
 
 def save_xml(data, output_file):
     """takes results as a list of dicts and writes them out to xml"""
+    
 
+    # TODO DRY up this bit and sort_fields_and_values
+
+    ignore_fields = ['embedding', 'embedding_model']
+    
+    data = [{key: value
+             for (key, value) in sorted(d.items())
+             if key not in ignore_fields} for d in data.get('data')]
     xml = dicttoxml.dicttoxml(data, attr_type=False)
+  
     with open(output_file, 'wb') as xmlfile:
         xmlfile.write(xml)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 82d80ce..d05a1da 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "nuldc"
-version = "0.10.0"
+version = "0.10.1"
 description = ""
 authors = ["davidschober <davidschob@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"