diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index fd5a259f..9ac2ccfb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "external/capsimg"]
 	path = external/capsimg
 	url = https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/capsimg
+[submodule "external/libxml2"]
+	path = external/libxml2
+	url = https://github.com/midwan/libxml2
diff --git a/external/libxml2 b/external/libxml2
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..d87078a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/libxml2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d87078a53642773db4ad38019370c475d570451f