diff --git a/R/client.R b/R/client.R
index 58ba5f1..5a6e030 100644
--- a/R/client.R
+++ b/R/client.R
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ print.storage_endpoint <- function(object)
     if(!is_empty(object$sas))
         cat("Account shared access signature: <hidden>\n")
     else cat("Account shared access signature: <none supplied>\n")
-    cat(sprintf("Storage API version: %s", object$api_version))
+    cat(sprintf("Storage API version: %s\n", object$api_version))
     invisible(object)
 }
 
diff --git a/R/storage_utils.R b/R/storage_utils.R
index bb82910..c3b4ac2 100644
--- a/R/storage_utils.R
+++ b/R/storage_utils.R
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ do_storage_call <- function(endpoint_url, path, options=list(), headers=list(),
         if(is_empty(cont))
             NULL
         else if(inherits(cont, "xml_node"))
-            xml2::as_list(cont)
+            xml_to_list(cont)
         else cont
     }
     else response
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ storage_error_message <- function(response, for_httr=TRUE)
     cont <- suppressMessages(httr::content(response))
     msg <- if(inherits(cont, "xml_node"))
     {
-        cont <- xml2::as_list(cont)
+        cont <- xml_to_list(cont)
         paste0(unlist(cont), collapse="\n")
     }
     else NULL
@@ -158,3 +158,11 @@ generate_endpoint_container <- function(url, key, sas, api_version)
     list(endpoint=endpoint, name=name)
 }
 
+
+xml_to_list <- function(x)
+{
+    # work around breaking change in xml2 1.2
+    if(packageVersion("xml2") < package_version("1.2"))
+        xml2::as_list(x)
+    else (xml2::as_list(x))[[1]]
+}