diff --git a/overlay.nix b/overlay.nix
index 41be66d..ec1dd8f 100644
--- a/overlay.nix
+++ b/overlay.nix
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-final: prev: with prev.lib; {
+final: prev: {
+  formats.xml = import ./xml.nix { pkgs = final; };
   pythonPackagesExtensions = prev.pythonPackagesExtensions ++ [ (import ./python_overlay.nix) ];
 }
diff --git a/xml.nix b/xml.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a4fae5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xml.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+{ pkgs }:
+let
+  inherit (pkgs) lib;
+  inherit (lib)
+    escapeShellArg
+    filterAttrs
+    hasPrefix
+    attrNames
+    ;
+  inherit (lib.types)
+    nullOr
+    oneOf
+    listOf
+    attrsOf
+    bool
+    int
+    float
+    str
+    path
+    attrs
+    ;
+in
+{
+  attribute-prefix ? "@",
+  content-name ? "#text",
+}:
+{
+  type =
+    let
+      attrsType =
+        let
+          contentType = attrsOf valueType;
+          attributesType = attrsOf (oneOf [
+            str
+            path
+            bool
+            int
+            float
+          ]);
+          addCheck =
+            val:
+            let
+              attributes = filterAttrs (name: _: hasPrefix attribute-prefix name) val;
+              contents = filterAttrs (name: _: !hasPrefix attribute-prefix name) val;
+            in
+            attributesType.check attributes
+            && (
+              if contents ? ${content-name} then
+                attrNames contents == [ content-name ] && str.check contents.${content-name}
+              else
+                contentType.check contents
+            );
+        in
+        attrs
+        // {
+          check = val: attrs.check val && addCheck val;
+          description = "XML values";
+        };
+      valueType =
+        nullOr (oneOf [
+          bool
+          int
+          float
+          str
+          path
+          attrsType
+          (listOf valueType)
+        ])
+        // {
+          description = "XML value";
+        };
+    in
+    valueType;
+  generate =
+    name: value:
+    pkgs.callPackage (
+      { runCommand, yq-go }:
+      runCommand name
+        {
+          nativeBuildInputs = [ yq-go ];
+          value = builtins.toJSON value;
+          passAsFile = [ "value" ];
+          preferLocalBuild = true;
+        }
+        ''
+          yq \
+            --xml-attribute-prefix ${escapeShellArg attribute-prefix} \
+            --xml-content-name ${escapeShellArg content-name} \
+            --output-format xml \
+            "$valuePath" > "$out"
+        ''
+    ) { };
+}