diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 80febe6b1..888af7a11 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ BUILD_SYSTEMS_TESTS += \
   linters \
   project_root_rel \
   reactive \
+  results_xml \
   run_hidden_linters \
   tracebugs \
   utf8_in_procname \
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
index fdbceb1f9..a7543c1f5 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
@@ -829,6 +829,10 @@ OPTIONS
            DEPRECATED: Specify the file containing perf profiler data to read       
     See also infer-analyze(1).
 
+       --pmd-xml
+           Activates: Output issues in (PMD) XML format in
+           infer-out/report.xml (Conversely: --no-pmd-xml)           See also infer-run(1).
+
        --print-active-checkers
            Activates: Print the active checkers before starting the analysis
            (Conversely: --no-print-active-checkers)           See also infer-analyze(1).
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer-run.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer-run.txt
index c029fee46..477f14a7f 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer-run.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer-run.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ OPTIONS
            Show this manual with all internal options in the INTERNAL OPTIONS
            section
 
+       --pmd-xml
+           Activates: Output issues in (PMD) XML format in
+           infer-out/report.xml (Conversely: --no-pmd-xml)
+
        --print-logs
            Activates: Also log messages to stdout and stderr (Conversely:
            --no-print-logs)
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
index 0130eee37..8de1edfd1 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
@@ -829,6 +829,10 @@ OPTIONS
            DEPRECATED: Specify the file containing perf profiler data to read       
     See also infer-analyze(1).
 
+       --pmd-xml
+           Activates: Output issues in (PMD) XML format in
+           infer-out/report.xml (Conversely: --no-pmd-xml)           See also infer-run(1).
+
        --print-active-checkers
            Activates: Print the active checkers before starting the analysis
            (Conversely: --no-print-active-checkers)           See also infer-analyze(1).
diff --git a/infer/src/base/Config.ml b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
index 5b45e4c9d..e7e8fe3f8 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/Config.ml
+++ b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
@@ -1705,6 +1705,12 @@ and patterns_skip_translation =
       "Matcher or list of matchers for names of files that should not be analyzed at all." )
 
 
+and pmd_xml =
+  CLOpt.mk_bool ~long:"pmd-xml"
+    ~in_help:InferCommand.[(Run, manual_generic)]
+    "Output issues in (PMD) XML format in infer-out/report.xml"
+
+
 and print_active_checkers =
   CLOpt.mk_bool ~long:"print-active-checkers"
     ~in_help:InferCommand.[(Analyze, manual_generic)]
@@ -2927,6 +2933,8 @@ and patterns_skip_implementation = match patterns_skip_implementation with k, r
 
 and patterns_skip_translation = match patterns_skip_translation with k, r -> (k, !r)
 
+and pmd_xml = !pmd_xml
+
 and print_active_checkers = !print_active_checkers
 
 and print_builtins = !print_builtins
diff --git a/infer/src/base/Config.mli b/infer/src/base/Config.mli
index e63e7e2e0..6e797440e 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/Config.mli
+++ b/infer/src/base/Config.mli
@@ -417,6 +417,8 @@ val only_cheap_debug : bool
 
 val only_footprint : bool
 
+val pmd_xml : bool
+
 val print_active_checkers : bool
 
 val print_builtins : bool
diff --git a/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.ml b/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.ml
index abcffec62..9984aa007 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.ml
+++ b/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.ml
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ type id =
   | ReportHtml
   | ReportJson
   | ReportText
+  | ReportXML
   | RetainCycles
   | RunState
   | Specs
@@ -147,6 +148,11 @@ let of_id = function
       ; kind= File
       ; before_incremental_analysis= Delete
       ; before_caching_capture= Delete }
+  | ReportXML ->
+      { rel_path= "report.xml"
+      ; kind= File
+      ; before_incremental_analysis= Delete
+      ; before_caching_capture= Delete }
   | RetainCycles ->
       { rel_path= "retain_cycle_dotty"
       ; kind= Directory
diff --git a/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.mli b/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.mli
index b1cfa04ea..087b4de65 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.mli
+++ b/infer/src/base/ResultsDirEntryName.mli
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ type id =
   | ReportHtml  (** directory of the HTML report *)
   | ReportJson  (** the main product of the analysis: [report.json] *)
   | ReportText  (** a human-readable textual version of [report.json] *)
+  | ReportXML  (** a PMD-style XML version of [report.json] *)
   | RetainCycles  (** directory of retain cycles dotty files *)
   | RunState  (** internal data about the last infer run *)
   | Specs  (** directory containing summaries as .specs files *)
diff --git a/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml b/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml
index ae52fb1a7..e46504b83 100644
--- a/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml
+++ b/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml
@@ -198,7 +198,9 @@ let report ?(suppress_console = false) () =
     TextReport.create_from_json
       ~quiet:(Config.quiet || suppress_console)
       ~console_limit:Config.report_console_limit ~report_txt:(ResultsDir.get_path ReportText)
-      ~report_json:issues_json ) ;
+      ~report_json:issues_json ;
+    if Config.pmd_xml then
+      XMLReport.write ~xml_path:(ResultsDir.get_path ReportXML) ~json_path:issues_json ) ;
   if Config.(test_determinator && process_clang_ast) then
     TestDeterminator.merge_test_determinator_results () ;
   ()
diff --git a/infer/src/integration/Help.ml b/infer/src/integration/Help.ml
index 631980a22..bf86ac7aa 100644
--- a/infer/src/integration/Help.ml
+++ b/infer/src/integration/Help.ml
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ let basename_checker_prefix = "checker-"
 
 let basename_of_checker {Checker.id} = basename_checker_prefix ^ id
 
+let url_fragment_of_issue_type unique_id =
+  Printf.sprintf "%s#%s" all_issues_basename (String.lowercase unique_id)
+
+
 let get_checker_web_documentation (checker : Checker.config) =
   match checker.kind with
   | UserFacing {title; markdown_body} ->
@@ -268,7 +272,7 @@ let pp_checker_issue_types f checker =
         Checker.equal issue_checker checker )
   in
   let pp_issue f {IssueType.unique_id} =
-    F.fprintf f "- [%s](%s.md#%s)@\n" unique_id all_issues_basename (String.lowercase unique_id)
+    F.fprintf f "- [%s](%s)@\n" unique_id (url_fragment_of_issue_type unique_id)
   in
   List.iter checker_issues ~f:(pp_issue f)
 
diff --git a/infer/src/integration/Help.mli b/infer/src/integration/Help.mli
index d6b75e771..4748b267c 100644
--- a/infer/src/integration/Help.mli
+++ b/infer/src/integration/Help.mli
@@ -21,3 +21,7 @@ val show_issue_types : IssueType.t list -> unit
 
 val write_website : website_root:string -> unit
 (** generate files for the fbinfer.com website *)
+
+val url_fragment_of_issue_type : string -> string
+(** given an issue type unique ID, return the URL fragment relative to the website documentation,
+    e.g. [url_fragment_of_issue_type "NULL_DEREFERENCE"] is ["all-issue-types#null_dereference"] *)
diff --git a/infer/src/integration/XMLReport.ml b/infer/src/integration/XMLReport.ml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0fdf4ebb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/src/integration/XMLReport.ml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+(*
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *)
+
+open! IStd
+module F = Format
+
+let pp_current_date_and_time f =
+  let {Unix.tm_year; tm_mon; tm_mday; tm_hour; tm_min; tm_sec} = Unix.time () |> Unix.localtime in
+  F.fprintf f "%d-%02d-%dT%d:%d:%d.000000" (1900 + tm_year) tm_mon tm_mday tm_hour tm_min tm_sec
+
+
+let pp_xml_issue f (issue : Jsonbug_t.jsonbug) =
+  let java_class_name, java_package, method_name =
+    let java_result =
+      let open IOption.Let_syntax in
+      if String.is_suffix ~suffix:".java" issue.file then
+        let* package_class_method, _formals_types = String.lsplit2 ~on:'(' issue.procedure in
+        let* package_class, method_ = String.rsplit2 ~on:'.' package_class_method in
+        let+ package, class_ = String.rsplit2 ~on:'.' package_class in
+        (package, class_, method_)
+      else None
+    in
+    match java_result with None -> ("", "", issue.procedure) | Some result -> result
+  in
+  F.fprintf f
+    {|<file name="%s">
+    <violation begincolumn="%d" beginline="%d" endcolumn="%d" endline="%d" class="%s" method="%s" package="%s" priority="1" rule="%s" ruleset="Infer Rules" externalinfourl="https://fbinfer.com/docs/next/%s">%s</violation>
+  </file>|}
+    issue.file (max issue.column 0) issue.line (max issue.column 0) (issue.line + 1) java_class_name
+    method_name java_package issue.bug_type
+    (Help.url_fragment_of_issue_type issue.bug_type)
+    issue.qualifier
+
+
+let is_user_visible (issue : Jsonbug_t.jsonbug) =
+  Option.is_none issue.censored_reason && not (String.equal issue.severity "INFO")
+
+
+let pp_xml_issue_filter f issue = if is_user_visible issue then pp_xml_issue f issue
+
+let write ~xml_path ~json_path =
+  let report = Atdgen_runtime.Util.Json.from_file Jsonbug_j.read_report json_path in
+  Utils.with_file_out xml_path ~f:(fun out_channel ->
+      let f = F.formatter_of_out_channel out_channel in
+      F.fprintf f {|@[%cpmd version="5.4.1" date="%t">
+  %a
+</pmd>@.|} '<' pp_current_date_and_time
+        (Pp.seq ~sep:"\n" pp_xml_issue_filter)
+        report )
diff --git a/infer/src/integration/XMLReport.mli b/infer/src/integration/XMLReport.mli
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7bd55bad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/src/integration/XMLReport.mli
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+(*
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *)
+
+open! IStd
+
+val write : xml_path:string -> json_path:string -> unit
+(** read the JSON report at [json_path] and translates it to a PMD-style XML report in [xml_path] *)
diff --git a/infer/tests/build_systems/results_xml/Makefile b/infer/tests/build_systems/results_xml/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f97143bec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/tests/build_systems/results_xml/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+TESTS_DIR = ../..
+
+CODETOANALYZE_DIR = ../codetoanalyze
+
+CLANG_OPTIONS = -c
+INFER_OPTIONS = --project-root $(CODETOANALYZE_DIR) --pmd-xml
+INFERPRINT_OPTIONS = --issues-tests
+SOURCES = $(CODETOANALYZE_DIR)/hello.c
+
+include $(TESTS_DIR)/clang.make
+
+issues.exp.test: infer-out/report.json
+#      massage the first line of the XML to delete non-reproducible information (the current date)
+	$(QUIET)sed -e 's/date="[^"]*"/date=""/' infer-out/report.xml > $@
+
diff --git a/infer/tests/build_systems/results_xml/issues.exp b/infer/tests/build_systems/results_xml/issues.exp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..044ace4ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/tests/build_systems/results_xml/issues.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<pmd version="5.4.1" date="">
+  <file name="hello.c">
+    <violation begincolumn="3" beginline="12" endcolumn="3" endline="13" class="" method="test" package="" priority="1" rule="NULL_DEREFERENCE" ruleset="Infer Rules" externalinfourl="https://fbinfer.com/docs/next/all-issue-types#null_dereference">pointer `s` last assigned on line 11 could be null and is dereferenced at line 12, column 3.</violation>
+  </file>
+</pmd>