diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/schemas/xml-dtd/xhtml1/default.nix b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/schemas/xml-dtd/xhtml1/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cdcf62467dba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/schemas/xml-dtd/xhtml1/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, libxml2 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "xhtml1-20020801";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/xhtml1.tgz;
+    sha256 = "0rr0d89i0z75qvjbm8il93bippx09hbmjwy0y2sj44n9np69x3hl";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ libxml2 ];
+
+  installPhase =
+    ''
+      ensureDir $out/xml/dtd/xhtml1
+      cp DTD/*.ent DTD/*.dtd $out/xml/dtd/xhtml1
+
+      # Generate an XML catalog.
+      cat=$out/xml/dtd/xhtml1/catalog.xml
+      xmlcatalog --noout --create $cat
+      grep PUBLIC DTD/*.soc | while read x; do
+          eval a=($x)
+          xmlcatalog --noout --add public "''${a[1]}" "''${a[2]}" $cat 
+      done
+    ''; # */
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/;
+    description = "DTDs for XHTML 1.0, the Extensible HyperText Markup Language";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4bbecf7c235f..60bbf4ca2dc0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5967,6 +5967,10 @@ let
     inherit builderDefs;
   };
 
+  xhtml1 = import ../data/sgml+xml/schemas/xml-dtd/xhtml1 {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv libxml2;
+  };
+
   xkeyboard_config = import ../data/misc/xkeyboard-config {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv perl perlXMLParser gettext intltool;
     inherit (xlibs) xkbcomp;