diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/xml/rxp/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/xml/rxp/default.nix
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+{stdenv, fetchurl} :
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "rxp-1.2.3";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rxp/rxp_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "1r4khvmnl5231y37ji8f3mikxy0dhdz155wi3qihfi27mc1yv534";
+  };
+  installPhase = ''
+    ensureDir $out/bin
+    cp rxp $out/bin
+  '';
+  meta = {
+    license = "GPL";
+    description = "a validating XML parser written in C";
+    homepage = "http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html";
+  };
+}