diff -urN svn2cl-0.11.orig/README svn2cl-0.11/README
--- svn2cl-0.11.orig/README	2008-04-06 15:37:06.000000000 +0200
+++ svn2cl-0.11/README	2009-03-01 22:44:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@
 layer and xsltproc. More information is available here:
 http://www.cosmo-system.jp/iwasa/svn2clwin.html
 
+AUTHORS FILES
+=============
+
+svn2cl can read authors file formatted as XML to convert login to full
+names with email address.
+To convert colon-separated files used by cvs2cl, the
+convert_authors.pl perl script can be used (it requires the
+XML::Simple perl module).
+
 NOTES
 =====
 
diff -urN svn2cl-0.11.orig/convert_authors.pl svn2cl-0.11/convert_authors.pl
--- svn2cl-0.11.orig/convert_authors.pl	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ svn2cl-0.11/convert_authors.pl	2009-03-01 22:44:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use XML::Simple;
+
+my @authors;
+while (<>) {
+    /^(.*?):(.*)$/ and push @authors, { uid => $1, content => $2 };
+}
+print XMLout({ author => \@authors }, RootName => "authors");