diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libnxml/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libnxml/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2e9ddfc91ef0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libnxml/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  autoreconfHook,
+  curl,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "libnxml";
+  version = "0.18.5";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "bakulf";
+    repo = "libnxml";
+    rev = "refs/tags/${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-6KI1bsfDgGJ4x8Wv7fcwCKm5AILa3jLnV53JY1g9B+M=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
+  buildInputs = [ curl ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/bakulf/libnxml";
+    description = "C library for parsing, writing and creating XML 1.0 and 1.1 files or streams";
+    license = lib.licenses.lgpl2;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ sigmanificient ];
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnxml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnxml/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 69ff6a6ebdc5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnxml/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-{lib, stdenv, fetchurl, curl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "libnxml";
-  version = "0.18.3";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.autistici.org/bakunin/libnxml/libnxml-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0ix5b9bxd7r517vhgcxwdviq4m0g0pq46s5g3h04gcqnpbin150g";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ curl ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://www.autistici.org/bakunin/libnxml/";
-    description = "C library for parsing, writing and creating XML 1.0 and 1.1 files or streams";
-    license = lib.licenses.lgpl2;
-
-    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 16102d8ee87b..8d5dcd6bb77b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -22063,8 +22063,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   libnova = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/astronomy/libnova { };
 
-  libnxml = callPackage ../development/libraries/libnxml { };
-
   libodfgen = callPackage ../development/libraries/libodfgen { };
 
   libofa = callPackage ../development/libraries/libofa { };