diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-xml.exp.xml b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-xml.exp.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1521bcc97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-xml.exp.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
+<expr>
+  <attrs>
+    <attr name="attrspat">
+      <function>
+        <attrspat name="args">
+          <attr name="x" />
+          <attr name="y" />
+          <attr name="z" />
+        </attrspat>
+      </function>
+    </attr>
+    <attr name="attrspat-ellipsis">
+      <function>
+        <attrspat ellipsis="1" name="args">
+          <attr name="x" />
+          <attr name="y" />
+          <attr name="z" />
+        </attrspat>
+      </function>
+    </attr>
+    <attr name="noattrspat">
+      <function>
+        <attrspat>
+          <attr name="x" />
+          <attr name="y" />
+          <attr name="z" />
+        </attrspat>
+      </function>
+    </attr>
+    <attr name="noattrspat-ellipsis">
+      <function>
+        <attrspat ellipsis="1">
+          <attr name="x" />
+          <attr name="y" />
+          <attr name="z" />
+        </attrspat>
+      </function>
+    </attr>
+  </attrs>
+</expr>
diff --git a/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-xml.nix b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-xml.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3cc5acf43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tvix/eval/src/tests/tvix_tests/eval-okay-xml.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  attrspat = args@{ x, y, z }: x;
+  attrspat-ellipsis = args@{ x, y, z, ... }: x;
+
+  noattrspat = { x, y, z }: x;
+  noattrspat-ellipsis = { x, y, z, ... }: x;
+}