diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 32ee999..3ec7da9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # soda - a fast SVG generation tool
 
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+
+
 Here's some basic usage:
 
 ```python
@@ -156,7 +166,7 @@ new_root = Tag.from_str(rendered_root)
 assert rendered_root == new_root.render(pretty=True)
 ```
 
-### Text
+## Text
 
 Basic text handling is pretty straightforward:
 
@@ -178,6 +188,30 @@ Tag.text(Literal("Hello, World"))
 
 If you need to add unescaped text (such as prerendered XML), you should pass `escape=False` to a `Literal` constructor:
 
+## XML Declarations and comments
+
+To insert an XML declaration (i.e. `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>`), use `XMLDeclaration`:
+
+```python
+from soda import XMLDeclaration
+
+
+print(XMLDeclaration(version="2.0", encoding="UTF-8").render()) # '<?xml version="2.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
+```
+
+Default values for version and encoding are "1.0" and "UTF-8" respectively
+
+
+XML comments are used similarly:
+
+```python
+from soda import XMLComment
+
+
+print(XMLComment("comment text!!").render()) # '<!-- comment text!! -->'
+```
+
+
 ```python
 from soda import Tag, Literal
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 334bbaf..5b48b26 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "soda-svg"
 packages = [{include = "soda"}]
-version = "1.1.7"
+version = "1.1.8"
 description = "Fast SVG generation tool"
 authors = ["Dmitry Gritsenko <soda@evtn.ru>"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/soda/__init__.py b/soda/__init__.py
index b3aff6b..33719d6 100644
--- a/soda/__init__.py
+++ b/soda/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 from .tags import Tag as Tag, Literal as Literal, Fragment as Fragment
-from .custom_tags import Root as Root, XMLDeclaration as XMLDeclaration
+from .custom_tags import (
+    Root as Root,
+    XMLDeclaration as XMLDeclaration,
+    XMLComment as XMLComment,
+)
 from .paths import Path as Path
 from .point import Point as Point, PointPath as PointPath
 from .config_mod import config as config
diff --git a/soda/custom_tags.py b/soda/custom_tags.py
index 8929533..af17433 100644
--- a/soda/custom_tags.py
+++ b/soda/custom_tags.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 from base64 import b64encode
 from os import PathLike
-from typing import BinaryIO
-from .tags import Node, Tag
+from typing import BinaryIO, Iterable
+from .tags import Literal, Node, Tag
 from pathlib import Path
 
 
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ def __init__(self, version: str = "1.0", encoding: str = "UTF-8"):
         super().__init__("xml", version=version, encoding=encoding)
 
 
+class XMLComment(Tag):
+    def __init__(self, text: str):
+        self.text = text
+
+    def build(self, tab_size: int = 0, tab_level: int = 0) -> Iterable[str]:
+        yield " " * (tab_size * tab_level)
+        yield "<!--"
+        yield " "
+        yield from Literal(self.text).build(0, 0)
+        yield " "
+        yield "-->"
+
+
 class Image(Tag):
     """
 
diff --git a/test/test_custom.py b/test/test_custom.py
index d0f1d2c..9148b0a 100644
--- a/test/test_custom.py
+++ b/test/test_custom.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from typing import BinaryIO
-from soda.custom_tags import Image, Root, XMLDeclaration
+from soda.custom_tags import Image, Root, XMLComment, XMLDeclaration
 from pathlib import Path
 from os import remove
 
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ def test_xml_decl(self):
             == '<?xml version="2.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
         )
 
+    def test_xml_comment(self):
+        assert XMLComment("what?").render() == "<!-- what? -->"
+
     def test_image(self):
         url = "https://example.com/example.jpg"