diff --git a/textproc/Makefile b/textproc/Makefile
index 7824758b1f8b..60c846785301 100644
--- a/textproc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/Makefile
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@
     SUBDIR += p5-Template-Extract
     SUBDIR += p5-Template-Magic
     SUBDIR += p5-Template-Plugin-Lingua-EN-Inflect
+    SUBDIR += p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape
     SUBDIR += p5-Test-Perl-Critic
     SUBDIR += p5-Text-ASCIITable
     SUBDIR += p5-Text-Affixes
diff --git a/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/Makefile b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b8a43f433500
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for:  Template-Plugin-XML-Escape
+# Date created:		12 January 2009
+# Whom:			kevit
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	Template-Plugin-XML-Escape
+PORTVERSION=	0.02
+CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
+MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
+
+MAINTAINER=	simarg@gmail.com
+COMMENT=	Escape variables to suit being placed into XML
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	p5-Template-Toolkit>=2.20:${PORTSDIR}/www/p5-Template-Toolkit
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${BUILD_DEPENDS}
+
+PERL_CONFIGURE=	yes
+MAN3=		Template::Plugin::XML::Escape.3
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/distinfo b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..596f808b73a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MD5 (Template-Plugin-XML-Escape-0.02.tar.gz) = 8a1189de2fc767915b7878bdfebd2dc2
+SHA256 (Template-Plugin-XML-Escape-0.02.tar.gz) = fb3c62236d0fd4b51a92067396ce0a3ae226295015c87183918b138923d1fac4
+SIZE (Template-Plugin-XML-Escape-0.02.tar.gz) = 2216
diff --git a/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/pkg-descr b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..77d9c24f98f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Escapes XML entities from text, so that you don't fall prey to people putting 
+quotes, less-than/greater-than, and ampersands, into variables that end up in 
+TT templates.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Plugin-XML-Escape
diff --git a/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/pkg-plist b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b531a83b9ec8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-Template-Plugin-XML-Escape/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+%%SITE_PERL%%/Template/Plugin/XML/Escape.pm
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Template/Plugin/XML/Escape/.packlist
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Template/Plugin/XML/Escape
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Template/Plugin/XML
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Template/Plugin
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/Template
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/Template/Plugin/XML
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/Template/Plugin
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/Template