diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxmlxx/v3.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxmlxx/v3.nix
index c40631e78b9a8..5dabe98bd711b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxmlxx/v3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxmlxx/v3.nix
@@ -7,36 +7,82 @@
   glibmm,
   perl,
   gnome,
+  meson,
+  ninja,
+  docbook5,
+  docbook-xsl-ns,
+  doxygen,
+  libxslt,
+  fop,
+  dblatex,
+  graphviz,
+
+  withDocumentation ? false,
+  withManual ? false, # Broken due to not being allowed to fetch file from web
+  withPDF ? false,
+  withExamples ? false,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libxml++";
-  version = "3.0.1";
+  version = "3.2.5";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/libxml++/${lib.versions.majorMinor version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "19kik79fmg61nv0by0a5f9wchrcfjwzvih4v2waw01hqflhqvp0r";
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/libxml++/${lib.versions.majorMinor version}/libxml++-${version}.tar.xz";
+    hash = "sha256-DJs4G1qD1rOrSwuGXXJW2rJ9V1mBtjvi+Fnty5TaWcc=";
   };
 
-  outputs = [
-    "out"
-    "dev"
-    "doc"
-    "devdoc"
-  ];
+  outputs =
+    [
+      "out"
+      "dev"
+    ]
+    ++ lib.lists.optionals withDocumentation [
+      "doc"
+      "devdoc"
+    ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    pkg-config
-    perl
-  ];
+  nativeBuildInputs =
+    [
+      ninja
+      meson
+      pkg-config
+    ]
+    ++ lib.lists.optionals withDocumentation [
+      perl
+      doxygen
+      libxslt
+      graphviz
+    ]
+    ++ lib.lists.optionals withManual [
+      docbook5
+      docbook-xsl-ns
+    ]
+    ++ lib.lists.optional withPDF [
+      fop
+      dblatex
+    ];
 
   buildInputs = [ glibmm ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libxml2 ];
 
+  mesonFlags = [
+    (lib.mesonBool "maintainer-mode" false)
+    (lib.mesonBool "build-documentation" withDocumentation)
+    (lib.mesonBool "build-manual" withManual)
+    (lib.mesonBool "build-pdf" withPDF)
+    (lib.mesonBool "build-examples" withExamples)
+    (lib.mesonBool "build-tests" doCheck)
+  ];
+
+  preBuild = lib.strings.optionalString withDocumentation ''
+    doxygen -u docs/reference/Doxyfile
+  '';
+
   postFixup = ''
     substituteInPlace $dev/lib/pkgconfig/libxml++-3.0.pc \
-      --replace 'docdir=''${datarootdir}' "docdir=$doc/share"
+      --replace-fail 'docdir=''${datarootdir}' "docdir=$doc/share"
   '';
 
   passthru = {
@@ -48,11 +94,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     };
   };
 
+  doCheck = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/";
     description = "C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library, version 3";
     license = licenses.lgpl2Plus;
     platforms = platforms.unix;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ loskutov ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [
+      loskutov
+      willow
+    ];
   };
 }