diff --git a/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake
index 011bc5f48a..7a8861a313 100644
--- a/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/libxmlpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-#..\src\libxml++-5-7c4d4a4cea.clean\meson.build:278:4: ERROR: Problem encountered: Static builds are not supported by MSVC-style builds
-set(LIBXMLPP_VERSION 5.0.0)
-
+string(REGEX MATCH "^([0-9]*[.][0-9]*)" MAJOR_MINOR "${VERSION}")
 vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
-    URLS "https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/5.0/libxml++-${LIBXMLPP_VERSION}.tar.xz"
-    FILENAME "libxml++-${LIBXMLPP_VERSION}.tar.xz"
-    SHA512 ae8d7a178e7a3b48a9f0e1ea303e8a4e4d879d0d9367124ede3783d0c31e31c862b98e5d28d72edc4c0b19c6b457ead2d25664efd33d65e44fd52c5783ec3091
+    URLS "https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/${MAJOR_MINOR}/libxml++-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
+         "https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/${MAJOR_MINOR}/libxml++-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
+    FILENAME "libxml++-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
+    SHA512 bba28edf40c60ac186ff1b704d9f4f41f73c1be3126cfb345005283b32bb5c9a596b8def64be8ad8e295e1e169bed91d120d5105cbbb6cecc4675d10b897dfe6
 )
 
 vcpkg_extract_source_archive(
@@ -16,16 +15,14 @@ vcpkg_configure_meson(
     SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
     OPTIONS 
         -Dbuild-documentation=false
+        -Dbuild-manual=false
         -Dvalidation=false # Validate the tutorial XML file
         -Dbuild-examples=false
         -Dbuild-tests=false
-        -Dmsvc14x-parallel-installable=false # Use separate DLL and LIB filenames for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019
         -Dbuild-deprecated-api=true # Build deprecated API and include it in the library
 )
 vcpkg_install_meson()
 vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig()
 vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
 
-# Handle copyright and readme
-file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxmlpp RENAME copyright)
-file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/README DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/libxmlpp)
+vcpkg_install_copyright(FILE_LIST "${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING")
diff --git a/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json b/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json
index 517ba3f2d9..7cae0a4686 100644
--- a/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/libxmlpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 {
   "name": "libxmlpp",
-  "version": "5.0.0",
-  "port-version": 3,
-  "description": "a C++ wrapper for the libxml XML parser library.",
-  "supports": "!(windows & static)",
+  "version": "5.4.0",
+  "description": "A C++ wrapper for the libxml XML parser library.",
+  "homepage": "https://libxmlplusplus.github.io/libxmlplusplus/",
+  "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later",
   "dependencies": [
     "glibmm",
-    "libxml2",
+    {
+      "name": "libxml2",
+      "default-features": false
+    },
     {
       "name": "vcpkg-tool-meson",
       "host": true
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 37725166f3..380adfe27b 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -5393,8 +5393,8 @@
       "port-version": 3
     },
     "libxmlpp": {
-      "baseline": "5.0.0",
-      "port-version": 3
+      "baseline": "5.4.0",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "libxmp": {
       "baseline": "4.6.0",
diff --git a/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json b/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json
index a9e868cad0..ef79a6fada 100644
--- a/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json
+++ b/versions/l-/libxmlpp.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "2d40381a24a7875d4cdd254d277963cb9ccbecbd",
+      "version": "5.4.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "361ec896634a0f947949dcf71e2dbf991c066d44",
       "version": "5.0.0",