diff --git a/.portsignore b/.portsignore
index 6894d54fbb54..a98255eda53d 100644
--- a/.portsignore
+++ b/.portsignore
@@ -8616,6 +8616,7 @@ textproc/p5-Text-ClearSilver
 textproc/p5-Tk-Pod
 textproc/p5-Tk-XMLViewer
 textproc/p5-Unicode-Tussle
+textproc/p5-XML-Canonical
 textproc/p5-xmltv
 textproc/pageedit
 textproc/pdfoutline
diff --git a/textproc/Makefile b/textproc/Makefile
index c110a228535e..4bfdce0c07b4 100644
--- a/textproc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/Makefile
@@ -939,7 +939,6 @@
     SUBDIR += p5-XML-Atom-Syndication
     SUBDIR += p5-XML-AutoWriter
     SUBDIR += p5-XML-Bare
-    SUBDIR += p5-XML-Canonical
     SUBDIR += p5-XML-CanonicalizeXML
     SUBDIR += p5-XML-Catalog
     SUBDIR += p5-XML-Clean
diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/Makefile b/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index cb8e66f377f6..000000000000
--- a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-PORTNAME=	XML-Canonical
-PORTVERSION=	0.10
-PORTREVISION=	5
-CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
-MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
-PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
-
-MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Perl Implementation of Canonical XML
-WWW=		https://metacpan.org/release/XML-Canonical
-
-LICENSE=	ART10 GPLv1+
-LICENSE_COMB=	dual
-
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${RUN_DEPENDS}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	p5-XML-GDOME>=0:textproc/p5-XML-GDOME
-LIB_DEPENDS=	libgdome.so:textproc/gdome2
-
-USES=		perl5 pkgconfig
-USE_PERL5=	configure
-
-post-patch:
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/die "VERSION" unless /d' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile.PL
-
-post-install:
-	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/${SITE_ARCH_REL}/auto/XML/Canonical/Canonical.so
-
-.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/distinfo b/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/distinfo
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e577a40b672..000000000000
--- a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/distinfo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-SHA256 (XML-Canonical-0.10.tar.gz) = 419ea71c91b8cdb07cb48075ff04424ea7ce69a90955dd5f73bd23f60488c488
-SIZE (XML-Canonical-0.10.tar.gz) = 6243
diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/pkg-descr b/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/pkg-descr
deleted file mode 100644
index ff5a1ab3c3d7..000000000000
--- a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/pkg-descr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-This module provides an implementation of Canonical XML Recommendation (Version
-1, 15 March 2001). It uses XML::GDOME for its DOM tree and XPath nodes.
-
-It provides a XS wrapper around libxml2's Canonical XML code.
diff --git a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/pkg-plist b/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/pkg-plist
deleted file mode 100644
index 0721fff01792..000000000000
--- a/textproc/p5-XML-Canonical/pkg-plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-%%SITE_ARCH%%/XML/Canonical.pm
-%%SITE_ARCH%%/auto/XML/Canonical/Canonical.so
-%%PERL5_MAN3%%/XML::Canonical.3.gz