diff --git a/textproc/libxmlbird/Makefile b/textproc/libxmlbird/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..be8b9a257b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/libxmlbird/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 2015/06/22 22:50:00 bcallah Exp $
+
+COMMENT =	XML parser written in Vala
+DISTNAME =	libxmlbird-1.0.5
+EXTRACT_SUFX =	.tar.xz
+CATEGORIES =	textproc
+
+SHARED_LIBS +=	xmlbird 0.0			# 1.0.5
+
+HOMEPAGE =	http://birdfont.org/xmlbird.php
+MAINTAINER =	Brian Callahan <bcallah@openbsd.org>
+
+# LGPLv3+
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM =	Yes
+
+MASTER_SITES =	http://birdfont.org/xmlbird-releases/
+
+MODULES =	lang/python
+MODPY_ADJ_FILES =       configure
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS =	devel/py-doit \
+		lang/vala
+
+# 'make test' will fail if not already installed.
+TEST_DEPENDS =	textproc/libxmlbird
+
+CONFIGURE_STYLE =	simple
+
+pre-configure:
+	perl -pi -e "s,bash,sh,g" ${WRKSRC}/scripts/run.py
+	${SUBST_CMD} ${WRKSRC}/dodo.py
+
+do-build:
+	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${LOCALBASE}/bin/doit
+
+do-install:
+	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/build/xmlbird.h ${PREFIX}/include
+	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/build/libxmlbird.so.${LIBxmlbird_VERSION} \
+		${PREFIX}/lib
+	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/build/xmlbird.pc \
+		${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig
+	${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/vala/vapi
+	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/build/xmlbird.vapi \
+		${PREFIX}/share/vala/vapi
+
+do-test:
+	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${LOCALBASE}/bin/doit test
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/libxmlbird/distinfo b/textproc/libxmlbird/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1d87b5014de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/libxmlbird/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SHA256 (libxmlbird-1.0.5.tar.xz) = vzcwmBG2/6zlMsDxKQ+P6MuvwUOGjY4PL56DGm7oQ18=
+SIZE (libxmlbird-1.0.5.tar.xz) = 16416
diff --git a/textproc/libxmlbird/patches/patch-scripts_bavala_py b/textproc/libxmlbird/patches/patch-scripts_bavala_py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ccd3691045a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/libxmlbird/patches/patch-scripts_bavala_py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-scripts_bavala_py,v 1.1.1.1 2015/06/22 22:50:00 bcallah Exp $
+--- scripts/bavala.py.orig	Mon Jun 22 10:19:23 2015
++++ scripts/bavala.py	Mon Jun 22 10:19:41 2015
+@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ class Vala(object):
+         
+         if not "bsd" in sys.platform:
+             create_link = "ln -s -T " + so_file + " " + self.so_link_name + " "
++        else:
++            create_link = "ln -s " + so_file + " " + self.so_link_name + " "
+ 
+         create_link += "&& mv " + self.so_link_name + " " + self.build + "/" 
+         return {
diff --git a/textproc/libxmlbird/pkg/DESCR b/textproc/libxmlbird/pkg/DESCR
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5eb58f216e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/libxmlbird/pkg/DESCR
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libxmlbird is an XML parser written in Vala for use with Birdfont.
diff --git a/textproc/libxmlbird/pkg/PLIST b/textproc/libxmlbird/pkg/PLIST
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0dbd782fde7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/libxmlbird/pkg/PLIST
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.1.1.1 2015/06/22 22:50:00 bcallah Exp $
+include/xmlbird.h
+@lib lib/libxmlbird.so.${LIBxmlbird_VERSION}
+lib/pkgconfig/xmlbird.pc
+share/vala/
+share/vala/vapi/
+share/vala/vapi/xmlbird.vapi