diff --git a/code/extensions/FilesystemPublisher.php b/code/extensions/FilesystemPublisher.php
index e32b3b7..3e18198 100644
--- a/code/extensions/FilesystemPublisher.php
+++ b/code/extensions/FilesystemPublisher.php
@@ -304,32 +304,6 @@ class FilesystemPublisher extends StaticPublisher {
 				);
 
 			}
-			
-			// Add externals
-			/*
-			$externals = $this->externalReferencesFor($content);
-			if($externals) foreach($externals as $external) {
-				// Skip absolute URLs
-				if(preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z]+:\/\//', $external)) continue;
-				// Drop querystring parameters
-				$external = strtok($external, '?');
-				
-				if(file_exists("../" . $external)) {
-					// Break into folder and filename
-					if(preg_match('/^(.*\/)([^\/]+)$/', $external, $matches)) {
-						$files[$external] = array(
-							"Copy" => "../$external",
-							"Folder" => $matches[1],
-							"Filename" => $matches[2],
-						);
-					
-					} else {
-						user_error("Can't parse external: $external", E_USER_WARNING);
-					}
-				} else {
-					$missingFiles[$external] = true;
-				}
-			}*/
 		}
 
 		//return config to its previous state
diff --git a/code/extensions/StaticPublisher.php b/code/extensions/StaticPublisher.php
index 9b3aa84..19f5436 100644
--- a/code/extensions/StaticPublisher.php
+++ b/code/extensions/StaticPublisher.php
@@ -179,39 +179,8 @@ abstract class StaticPublisher extends DataExtension {
 	}
 		
 	/**
-	 * Get all external references to CSS, JS, 
-	 */
-	public function externalReferencesFor($content) {
-		$CLI_content = escapeshellarg($content);
-		$tidy = `echo $CLI_content | tidy -numeric -asxhtml`;
-		$tidy = preg_replace('/xmlns="[^"]+"/','', $tidy);
-		$xContent = new SimpleXMLElement($tidy);
-		
-		$xlinks = array(
-			"//link[@rel='stylesheet']/@href" => false,
-			"//script/@src" => false,
-			"//img/@src" => false,
-			"//a/@href" => true,
-		);
-		
-		$urls = array();
-
-		foreach($xlinks as $xlink => $assetsOnly) {
-			$matches = $xContent->xpath($xlink);
-			if($matches) foreach($matches as $item) {
-				$url = $item . '';
-				if($assetsOnly && substr($url,0,7) != ASSETS_DIR . '/') continue;
-
-				$urls[] = $url;
-			}
-		}
-		
-		return $urls;		
-	}
-
-	/**
+	 * 
 	 * @param string $url
-	 *
 	 * @return array
 	 */
 	public function getMetadata($url) {