diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index 0f6b5dc9bc..b9661f91d1 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ (define-public perl-xml-xpath
     (build-system perl-build-system)
     (native-inputs
      `(("perl-path-tiny" ,perl-path-tiny)))
-    (inputs
+    (propagated-inputs
      `(("perl-xml-parser" ,perl-xml-parser)))
     (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-XPath")
     (synopsis "Parse and evaluate XPath statements")