diff --git a/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3.bep b/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2dbd8e7dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+DESCRIPTION="libxml2 - Version 2 of the library to manipulate XML files" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.xmlsoft.org/" 
+SRC_URI="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd libxml2-2.7.3
+	libtoolize --force --copy --install
+	aclocal
+	autoconf
+	automake
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common --enable-ipv6=no LDFLAGS=-lnetwork
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd libxml2-2.7.3
+	make install
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.6.bep b/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.6.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b05cacf49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.6.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+DESCRIPTION="libxml2 - Version 2 of the library to manipulate XML files" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.xmlsoft.org/" 
+SRC_URI="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.6.tar.gz"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd libxml2-2.7.6
+	libtoolize --force --copy --install
+	aclocal
+	autoconf
+	automake
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common --enable-ipv6=no LDFLAGS=-lnetwork
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd libxml2-2.7.6
+	make install
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3-haiku.diff b/dev-libs/libxml2/patches/libxml2-2.7.3.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from dev-libs/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3-haiku.diff
rename to dev-libs/libxml2/patches/libxml2-2.7.3.patch