diff --git a/poky/meta/classes/xmlcatalog.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes/xmlcatalog.bbclass
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+# A whitespace-separated list of XML catalogs to be registered, for example
+# "${sysconfdir}/xml/docbook-xml.xml".
+XMLCATALOGS ?= ""
+
+SYSROOT_PREPROCESS_FUNCS_append = " xmlcatalog_sstate_postinst"
+
+xmlcatalog_complete() {
+	ROOTCATALOG="${STAGING_ETCDIR_NATIVE}/xml/catalog"
+	if [ ! -f $ROOTCATALOG ]; then
+		mkdir --parents $(dirname $ROOTCATALOG)
+		xmlcatalog --noout --create $ROOTCATALOG
+	fi
+	for CATALOG in ${XMLCATALOGS}; do
+		xmlcatalog --noout --add nextCatalog unused file://$CATALOG $ROOTCATALOG
+	done
+}
+
+xmlcatalog_sstate_postinst() {
+	mkdir -p ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${bindir}
+	dest=${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${bindir}/postinst-${PN}-xmlcatalog
+	echo '#!/bin/sh' > $dest
+	echo '${xmlcatalog_complete}' >> $dest
+	chmod 0755 $dest
+}