diff --git a/htroot/BlacklistImpExp_p.html b/htroot/BlacklistImpExp_p.html
index 97f3058cd..7b45468ea 100644
--- a/htroot/BlacklistImpExp_p.html
+++ b/htroot/BlacklistImpExp_p.html
@@ -48,6 +48,18 @@
           <input type="submit" value="Load new blacklist items" />
         </fieldset>
       </form>
+
+      <!-- blacklist import from xml file -->
+      <form action="sharedBlacklist_p.html" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
+        <fieldset>
+          <legend>XML file:</legend>
+          Upload an XML file which contains one or more blacklists.<br /><br />
+          <input type="hidden" name="currentBlacklist" value="#[currentBlacklist]#" />
+          <input type="hidden" name="type" value="xml" />
+          <input type="file" name="file" />
+          <input type="submit" value="Load new blacklist items" />
+        </fieldset>
+      </form>
     </fieldset>::#(/disabled)#
 
     <fieldset class="exportListItems">
diff --git a/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.html b/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.html
index f56f6caa8..c01984116 100644
--- a/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.html
+++ b/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.html
@@ -46,9 +46,11 @@
 ::
       <!-- [5] -->
 	  Wrong Invocation! Please invoke with sharedBlacklist.html?name=PeerName
+::
+      <!-- [6] -->
+	  Parse Error! An error occured while parsing XML data. Please check if the XML is valid.
 	  #(/status)#
     </p>
-
     <form action="sharedBlacklist_p.html" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
       <input type="hidden" name="num" value="#[num]#" />
       #(page)#<!-- [0] -->
diff --git a/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java b/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java
index 7e474b4ec..5664290b3 100644
--- a/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java
+++ b/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -40,6 +41,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 import de.anomic.crawler.HTTPLoader;
 import de.anomic.data.AbstractBlacklist;
 import de.anomic.data.listManager;
+import de.anomic.data.list.ListAccumulator;
+import de.anomic.data.list.XMLBlacklistImporter;
 import de.anomic.htmlFilter.htmlFilterCharacterCoding;
 import de.anomic.http.httpClient;
 import de.anomic.http.httpRequestHeader;
@@ -49,6 +52,8 @@ import de.anomic.server.serverObjects;
 import de.anomic.server.serverSwitch;
 import de.anomic.yacy.yacySeed;
 import de.anomic.yacy.yacyURL;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 public class sharedBlacklist_p {
 
@@ -58,6 +63,7 @@ public class sharedBlacklist_p {
     public static final int STATUS_PEER_UNKNOWN = 3;
     public static final int STATUS_URL_PROBLEM = 4;
     public static final int STATUS_WRONG_INVOCATION = 5;
+    public static final int STATUS_PARSE_ERROR = 6;
 
     private final static String BLACKLIST_FILENAME_FILTER = "^.*\\.black$";
     
@@ -99,6 +105,8 @@ public class sharedBlacklist_p {
             prop.put("page_blackLists", blacklistCount);
             
             List<String> otherBlacklist = null;
+            ListAccumulator otherBlacklists = null;
+            
             if (post.containsKey("hash")) {
                 /* ======================================================
                  * Import blacklist from other peer 
@@ -165,22 +173,42 @@ public class sharedBlacklist_p {
                     prop.put("page", "1");
                 }
             } else if (post.containsKey("file")) {
-                /* ======================================================
-                 * Import the blacklist from file
-                 * ====================================================== */
-                final String sourceFileName = post.get("file");
-                prop.putHTML("page_source", sourceFileName);
-                
-                final String fileString = post.get("file$file");
 
-                if (fileString != null) {
-                    try {
-                        otherBlacklist = FileUtils.strings(fileString.getBytes("UTF-8"), "UTF-8");
-                    } catch (IOException ex) {
-                        prop.put("status", STATUS_FILE_ERROR);
+                if (post.containsKey("type") && post.get("type").equalsIgnoreCase("xml")) {
+                    /* ======================================================
+                     * Import the blacklist from XML file
+                     * ====================================================== */
+                    final String sourceFileName = post.get("file");
+                    prop.putHTML("page_source", sourceFileName);
+
+                    final String fileString = post.get("file$file");
+
+                    if (fileString != null) {
+                        try {
+                            otherBlacklists = new XMLBlacklistImporter().parse(new StringReader(fileString));
+                        } catch (IOException ex) {
+                            prop.put("status", STATUS_FILE_ERROR);
+                        } catch (SAXException ex) {
+                            prop.put("status", STATUS_PARSE_ERROR);
+                        }
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    /* ======================================================
+                     * Import the blacklist from text file
+                     * ====================================================== */
+                    final String sourceFileName = post.get("file");
+                    prop.putHTML("page_source", sourceFileName);
+
+                    final String fileString = post.get("file$file");
+
+                    if (fileString != null) {
+                        try {
+                            otherBlacklist = FileUtils.strings(fileString.getBytes("UTF-8"), "UTF-8");
+                        } catch (IOException ex) {
+                            prop.put("status", STATUS_FILE_ERROR);
+                        }
                     }
                 }
-                
             } else if (post.containsKey("add")) {
                 /* ======================================================
                  * Add loaded items into blacklist file
@@ -268,12 +296,40 @@ public class sharedBlacklist_p {
                 prop.put("page_urllist", (count));
                 prop.put("num", count);
                 prop.put("page", "0");
+
+            } else if (otherBlacklists != null) {
+                List<List<String>> entries = otherBlacklists.getEntryLists();
+                //List<Map<String,String>> properties = otherBlacklists.getPropertyMaps();
+                int count = 0;
+
+                for(List<String> list : entries) {
+
+                    // sort the loaded blacklist
+                    final String[] sortedlist = list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);
+                    Arrays.sort(sortedlist);
+
+                    for(int i = 0; i < sortedlist.length; i++){
+                        final String tmp = sortedlist[i];
+                        if(!tmp.equals("")){
+                            //newBlacklist.add(tmp);
+                            prop.put("page_urllist_" + count + "_dark", count % 2 == 0 ? "0" : "1");
+                            prop.putHTML("page_urllist_" + count + "_url", tmp);
+                            prop.put("page_urllist_" + count + "_count", count);
+                            count++;
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                }
+
+                prop.put("page_urllist", (count));
+                prop.put("num", count);
+                prop.put("page", "0");
+
             }
                 
-                
         } else {
             prop.put("page", "1");
-            prop.put("status", "5");//Wrong Invokation
+            prop.put("status", "5");//Wrong Invocation
         }
         return prop;
     }