diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index c745776..f8cafaf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - opnk: added "--mode" command-line argument (bug #39)
 - offpunk: support for "preformatted" theming (bug #38)
 - opnk/netcache: added "--cache-validity" command-line argument (bug #37)
+- ansicat: consider files as XML, not SVG, if they don’t have .svg extension
 
 ## 2.1 - December 15th 2023
 - freshly updated gemtext/rss links are highlighted ("new_link" theme option)
diff --git a/ansicat.py b/ansicat.py
index 2dd6308..af33bb5 100755
--- a/ansicat.py
+++ b/ansicat.py
@@ -1355,6 +1355,9 @@ def get_mime(path,url=None):
         # If it’s a xml file, consider it as such, regardless of what file thinks
         elif path.endswith(".xml"):
             mime = "text/xml"
+        # If it doesn’t end with .svg, it is probably an xml, not a SVG file
+        elif "svg" in mime and not path.endswith(".svg"):
+            mime = "text/xml"
         #Some xml/html document are considered as octet-stream
         if mime == "application/octet-stream":
             mime = "text/xml"