diff --git a/basis/html/components/components-docs.factor b/basis/html/components/components-docs.factor
index b432cc0cc6..37dbeba6c1 100644
--- a/basis/html/components/components-docs.factor
+++ b/basis/html/components/components-docs.factor
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ HELP: hidden
 { $description "Hidden components render as a hidden form field. For example, a page for editing a weblog post might contain a hidden field with the post ID." } ;
 
 HELP: html
-{ $description "HTML components render HTML verbatim, without any escaping. Care must be taken to only render trusted input, to avoid cross-site scripting attacks." } ;
+{ $description "HTML components render HTML verbatim from a string, without any escaping. Care must be taken to only render trusted input, to avoid cross-site scripting attacks." } ;
+
+HELP: xml
+{ $description "XML components render XML verbatim, from an XML chunk. Care must be taken to only render trusted input, to avoid cross-site scripting attacks." } ;
 
 HELP: inspector
 { $description "Inspector components render an arbitrary object by passing it to the " { $link describe } " word." } ;
@@ -90,6 +93,7 @@ $nl
 { $subsection inspector }
 { $subsection comparison }
 { $subsection html }
+{ $subsection xml }
 "Tuple components:"
 { $subsection field }
 { $subsection password }
diff --git a/basis/html/components/components.factor b/basis/html/components/components.factor
index 2b18e28351..9dddb85619 100644
--- a/basis/html/components/components.factor
+++ b/basis/html/components/components.factor
@@ -171,3 +171,8 @@ M: comparison render*
 SINGLETON: html
 
 M: html render* 2drop <unescaped> ;
+
+! XML component
+SINGLETON: xml
+
+M: xml render* 2drop ;
diff --git a/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe-docs.factor b/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe-docs.factor
index 18e6db66f6..fcfd454478 100644
--- a/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe-docs.factor
+++ b/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe-docs.factor
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 IN: html.templates.chloe
-USING: help.markup help.syntax html.components html.forms
+USING: xml.data help.markup help.syntax html.components html.forms
 html.templates html.templates.chloe.syntax
 html.templates.chloe.compiler html.templates.chloe.components
-math xml.data strings quotations namespaces ;
+math strings quotations namespaces ;
 
 HELP: <chloe>
 { $values { "path" "a pathname string without the trailing " { $snippet ".xml" } " extension" } { "chloe" chloe } }
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ ARTICLE: "html.templates.chloe.tags.component" "Component Chloe tags"
     { { $snippet "t:field" }      { $link field } }
     { { $snippet "t:hidden" }     { $link hidden } }
     { { $snippet "t:html" }       { $link html } }
+    { { $snippet "t:xml" }        { $link xml } }
     { { $snippet "t:inspector" }  { $link inspector } }
     { { $snippet "t:label" }      { $link label } }
     { { $snippet "t:link" }       { $link link } }
diff --git a/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe.factor b/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe.factor
index eafa3c3a5d..439b207063 100644
--- a/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe.factor
+++ b/basis/html/templates/chloe/chloe.factor
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ COMPONENT: password
 COMPONENT: choice
 COMPONENT: checkbox
 COMPONENT: code
+COMPONENT: xml
 
 SYMBOL: template-cache