diff --git a/dev-R/XML/Manifest b/dev-R/XML/Manifest
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+DIST XML_3.99-0.10.tar.gz 969942 BLAKE2B dd800c34da7d48b8394983202057ed6e4df6816868d7fc67c26ef0649a48ada6e68875fa349b335a20fd6a10ade0a1542d31d31fb62592fb7ceae115956bdb77 SHA512 b60f2f18473127d9e9b69f1d092c8e6ee4d8b50531b5734c3850a93664ffb5300c817d2d455a4ba3dd738f6ebcfe80d0ed08ae7bbf57ba32b4186abeb858fd05
diff --git a/dev-R/XML/XML-3.99.0.10.ebuild b/dev-R/XML/XML-3.99.0.10.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Tools for Parsing and Generating XML Within R and S-Plus'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='BSD'
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.3
+"
+CRAN_PV="3.99-0.10"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	dev-R/bitops
+	dev-R/RCurl
+"
+
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${PN}_${CRAN_PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/dev-R/XML/metadata.xml b/dev-R/XML/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>me@r0bert.dev</email>
+		<name>Robert Greener</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">Many approaches for both reading and creating XML (and HTML) documents (including DTDs), both local and accessible via HTTP or FTP. Also offers access to an 'XPath' "interpreter".</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>CRAN Team</name>
+			<email>CRAN@r-project.org</email>
+		</maintainer>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>