diff --git a/extra/benchmark/xml/xml.factor b/extra/benchmark/xml/xml.factor
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+! Copyright (C) 2008 Slava Pestov.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+USING: io.encodings.utf8 io.files kernel sequences xml ;
+IN: benchmark.xml
+
+: xml-benchmark ( -- )
+    "resource:basis/xmode/modes/" [
+        [ utf8 <file-reader> read-xml drop ] each
+    ] with-directory-files ;
+
+MAIN: xml-benchmark