diff --git a/R/gifti_xml_tools.R b/R/gifti_xml_tools.R
index 8ecb003..7038356 100644
--- a/R/gifti_xml_tools.R
+++ b/R/gifti_xml_tools.R
@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@
 #' @note Assumes that there already exists a global MetaData node. Also not that this is not supposed to be used for adding metadata to datarrays.
 #'
 #' @examples
+#' \dontrun{
 #'   xmltree = gifti_xml(list(rep(3.1, 3L), matrix(seq(6)+0.1, nrow=2L)));
 #'   newtree = gifti_xml_add_global_metadata(xmltree, list("User"="Me", "Weather"="Great"));
 #'   gifti_xsd = "https://www.nitrc.org/frs/download.php/158/gifti.xsd";
 #'   xml2::xml_validate(newtree, xml2::read_xml(gifti_xsd));
-#'
+#' }
 #' @export
 gifti_xml_add_global_metadata <- function(xmltree, metadata_named_list, as_cdata=TRUE) {
   xpath='.//MetaData';
diff --git a/man/gifti_xml_add_global_metadata.Rd b/man/gifti_xml_add_global_metadata.Rd
index 0210e0b..86e2c88 100644
--- a/man/gifti_xml_add_global_metadata.Rd
+++ b/man/gifti_xml_add_global_metadata.Rd
@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ Add metadata to GIFTI XML tree.
 Assumes that there already exists a global MetaData node. Also not that this is not supposed to be used for adding metadata to datarrays.
 }
 \examples{
+\dontrun{
   xmltree = gifti_xml(list(rep(3.1, 3L), matrix(seq(6)+0.1, nrow=2L)));
   newtree = gifti_xml_add_global_metadata(xmltree, list("User"="Me", "Weather"="Great"));
   gifti_xsd = "https://www.nitrc.org/frs/download.php/158/gifti.xsd";
   xml2::xml_validate(newtree, xml2::read_xml(gifti_xsd));
-
+}
 }