diff --git a/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe b/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe
index 4bb691719..9c02605e4 100644
--- a/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe
+++ b/dev-perl/xml_parser/xml_parser-2.36.recipe
@@ -1,25 +1,42 @@
-#dev-perl/XML-Parser
+SUMMARY="XML-Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents"
 DESCRIPTION="XML-Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents"
 HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-Parser-2.36/"
 SRC_URI="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.36.tar.gz"
 REVISION="1"
-# only tested on gcc4
-STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
-DEPEND=""
 CHECKSUM_MD5="1b868962b658bd87e1563ecd56498ded"
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2000 Larry Wall and Clark Cooper. All rights reserved."
+LICENSE="Artistic (Perl)"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_gcc2"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	xml_parser = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku >= $haikuVersion
+	lib:libexpat
+	perl
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	devel:libexpat
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:perl"
+
+SOURCE_DIR="XML-Parser-2.36"
 
 # TODO: Remove hardcoded paths. The following shows how to get the the file path:
 #find /boot/common/lib/perl5 -type f -name unixish.h | grep -FzZ BePC-haiku/CORE/unixish.h
 
 BUILD()
 {
-	cd XML-Parser-2.36
-	perl Makefile.PL
+	perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$prefix
 	make
 }
 
 INSTALL()
 {
-	cd XML-Parser-2.36
 	make install DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}"
 }