diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 2c27951a..39696463 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
                  [org.clojure/core.async "0.4.500"]
                  [org.clojure/tools.cli "0.4.2"]
                  [org.clojure/data.csv "0.1.4"]
+                 [org.clojure/data.xml "0.2.0-alpha6"]
                  [cheshire "5.9.0"]]
   :profiles {:test {:dependencies [[clj-commons/conch "0.9.2"]]}
              :uberjar {:global-vars {*assert* false}
diff --git a/reflection.json b/reflection.json
index a41c3fcd..676d7b83 100644
--- a/reflection.json
+++ b/reflection.json
@@ -181,5 +181,9 @@
     "allPublicMethods":true,
     "allPublicFields": true,
     "allPublicConstructors": true
-  }
+  },
+  {"name":"com.sun.xml.internal.stream.XMLInputFactoryImpl",
+   "methods":[{"name":"<init>","parameterTypes":[] }]},
+  {"name":"com.sun.xml.internal.stream.XMLOutputFactoryImpl",
+   "methods":[{"name":"<init>","parameterTypes":[] }]}
 ]
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/xml.clj b/src/babashka/impl/xml.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..29beef64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/xml.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+(ns babashka.impl.xml
+  {:no-doc true}
+  (:require [clojure.data.xml :as xml]))
+
+(def xml-namespace
+  {'parse-str xml/parse-str
+   'element xml/element
+   'emit-str xml/emit-str})
+
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 392436b4..b1bd3679 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.clojure.stacktrace :refer [print-stack-trace]]
    [babashka.impl.conch :refer [conch-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.csv :as csv]
+   [babashka.impl.xml :as xml]
    [babashka.impl.pipe-signal-handler :refer [handle-pipe! pipe-signal-received?]]
    [babashka.impl.repl :as repl]
    [babashka.impl.socket-repl :as socket-repl]
@@ -251,7 +252,8 @@ Everything after that is bound to *command-line-args*."))
                           'me.raynes.conch.low-level conch-namespace
                           'clojure.core.async async-namespace
                           'clojure.data.csv csv/csv-namespace
-                          'cheshire.core cheshire-core-namespace}
+                          'cheshire.core cheshire-core-namespace
+                          'clojure.data.xml xml/xml-namespace}
              :bindings {'java.lang.System/exit exit ;; override exit, so we have more control
                         'System/exit exit}
              :env env