diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/builder.sh b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/builder.sh
index c0544529008..6e01594aefb 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/builder.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+. $stdenv/setup
 
-mkdir -p $out/emacs/site-lisp || exit 1
-cd $out/emacs/site-lisp || exit 1
-tar xvfz $src || exit 1
-mv nxml-mode-*/* . || exit 1
+mkdir -p $out/emacs/site-lisp
+cd $out/emacs/site-lisp
+tar xvfz $src
+mv nxml-mode-*/* .
 rmdir nxml-mode-*
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/default.nix
index 59be8c2f7a8..d13d22f6ff6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/modes/nxml/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}: stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "nxml-mode-20031031";
+  name = "nxml-mode-20040726";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://www.thaiopensource.com/download/nxml-mode-20031031.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "4cbc32047183e6cc1b7a2757d1078bd2";
+    url = http://www.thaiopensource.com/download/nxml-mode-20040726.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "d5c1d6031abfd23cd0da0b79422d9810";
   };
 }