diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/StrictXML.java b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/StrictXML.java
index d5d0903b..1e18ee51 100755
--- a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/StrictXML.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/StrictXML.java
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ public XML merge(final NamespaceContext context) {
 
     @Override
     public Node node() {
-        return this.origin.node();
+        return this.origin.deepCopy();
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ private static Collection<SAXParseException> validate(
             validator.setErrorHandler(
                 new XMLDocument.ValidationHandler(errors)
             );
-            final DOMSource dom = new DOMSource(xml.node());
+            final DOMSource dom = new DOMSource(xml.inner());
             for (int retry = 1; retry <= max; ++retry) {
                 try {
                     validator.validate(dom);
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XML.java b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XML.java
index 395c1bfc..cfa30423 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XML.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XML.java
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
  *   // ...
  * }</pre>
  *
- * <p>You can always get DOM node out of this abstraction using {@link #node()}
- * method.
+ * <p>You can always get DOM node out of this abstraction using {@link #inner()}
+ * or {@link #deepCopy()} methods.
  *
  * <p>{@code toString()} must produce a full XML.
  *
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ public interface XML {
      * This method works exactly the same as {@link #deepCopy()}.
      * @return DOM node
      */
-//    @Deprecated
+    @Deprecated
     Node node();
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocument.java b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocument.java
index f8688cdc..0ea0c0b7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocument.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocument.java
@@ -310,14 +310,7 @@ public int hashCode() {
 
     @Override
     public Node node() {
-        final Node casted = this.cache;
-        final Node answer;
-        if (casted instanceof Document) {
-            answer = casted.cloneNode(true);
-        } else {
-            answer = XMLDocument.createImportedNode(casted);
-        }
-        return answer;
+        return this.deepCopy();
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -327,7 +320,14 @@ public Node inner() {
 
     @Override
     public Node deepCopy() {
-        return this.node();
+        final Node casted = this.cache;
+        final Node answer;
+        if (casted instanceof Document) {
+            answer = casted.cloneNode(true);
+        } else {
+            answer = XMLDocument.createImportedNode(casted);
+        }
+        return answer;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XSLDocument.java b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XSLDocument.java
index 2da2d66e..50138095 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XSLDocument.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jcabi/xml/XSLDocument.java
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ private void transformInto(final XML xml, final Result result) {
         trans.setErrorListener(errors);
         final long start = System.nanoTime();
         try {
-            trans.transform(new DOMSource(xml.node()), result);
+            trans.transform(new DOMSource(xml.inner()), result);
         } catch (final TransformerException ex) {
             final StringBuilder summary = new StringBuilder(
                 String.join("; ", errors.summary())
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocumentTest.java b/src/test/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocumentTest.java
index 38c59fb0..c4acda03 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocumentTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/jcabi/xml/XMLDocumentTest.java
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ void printsWithNamespace() {
             new XMLDocument(
                 new XMLDocument(
                     "<z xmlns:a='hey'><f a:boom='test'/></z>"
-                ).node()
+                ).inner()
             ).toString(),
             Matchers.containsString("a:boom")
         );
@@ -202,11 +202,11 @@ void retrievesDomNode() throws Exception {
             this.getClass().getResource("simple.xml")
         );
         MatcherAssert.assertThat(
-            doc.nodes("/root/simple").get(0).node().getNodeName(),
+            doc.nodes("/root/simple").get(0).inner().getNodeName(),
             Matchers.equalTo("simple")
         );
         MatcherAssert.assertThat(
-            doc.nodes("//simple").get(0).node().getNodeType(),
+            doc.nodes("//simple").get(0).inner().getNodeType(),
             Matchers.equalTo(Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
         );
     }
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ void takesNodeInMultipleThreads() throws Exception {
         final Runnable runnable = () -> {
             try {
                 MatcherAssert.assertThat(
-                    new XMLDocument(xml.node()).toString(),
+                    new XMLDocument(xml.inner()).toString(),
                     Matchers.containsString(">5555<")
                 );
                 done.incrementAndGet();
@@ -434,11 +434,11 @@ void performsXpathCalculations() {
     void buildsDomNode() {
         final XML doc = new XMLDocument("<?xml version='1.0'?><f/>");
         MatcherAssert.assertThat(
-            doc.node(),
+            doc.inner(),
             Matchers.instanceOf(Document.class)
         );
         MatcherAssert.assertThat(
-            doc.nodes("/f").get(0).node(),
+            doc.nodes("/f").get(0).inner(),
             Matchers.instanceOf(Element.class)
         );
     }
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ void preservesXmlNamespaces() {
     @Test
     void preservesImmutability() {
         final XML xml = new XMLDocument("<r1><a/></r1>");
-        final Node node = xml.nodes("/r1/a").get(0).node();
+        final Node node = xml.nodes("/r1/a").get(0).deepCopy();
         node.appendChild(node.getOwnerDocument().createElement("h9"));
         MatcherAssert.assertThat(
             xml,