diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index 8711242..2c78cd9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@
           ... # Work with dom.
 
 
-.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="")
+.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="",
+                          encoding=None, standalone=None)
 
    Write XML to the writer object.  The writer receives texts but not bytes as input,
    it should have a :meth:`write` method which matches that of the file object
@@ -144,11 +145,18 @@
    For the :class:`Document` node, an additional keyword argument *encoding* can
    be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.
 
+   Silimarly, explicitly stating the *standalone* argument causes the
+   standalone document declarations to be added to the prologue of the XML
+   document.
+   If the value is set to `True`, `standalone="yes"` is added,
+   otherwise it is set to `"no"`.
+   Not stating the argument will omit the declaration from the document.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       The :meth:`writexml` method now preserves the attribute order specified
       by the user.
 
-.. method:: Node.toxml(encoding=None)
+.. method:: Node.toxml(encoding=None, standalone=None)
 
    Return a string or byte string containing the XML represented by
    the DOM node.
@@ -160,11 +168,14 @@
    encoding. Encoding this string in an encoding other than UTF-8 is
    likely incorrect, since UTF-8 is the default encoding of XML.
 
+   The *standalone* argument behaves exactly as in :meth:`writexml`.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       The :meth:`toxml` method now preserves the attribute order specified
       by the user.
 
-.. method:: Node.toprettyxml(indent="\\t", newl="\\n", encoding=None)
+.. method:: Node.toprettyxml(indent="\\t", newl="\\n", encoding=None,
+                             standalone=None)
 
    Return a pretty-printed version of the document. *indent* specifies the
    indentation string and defaults to a tabulator; *newl* specifies the string
@@ -173,6 +184,8 @@
    The *encoding* argument behaves like the corresponding argument of
    :meth:`toxml`.
 
+   The *standalone* argument behaves exactly as in :meth:`writexml`.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       The :meth:`toprettyxml` method now preserves the attribute order specified
       by the user.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
index 7096585..1663b1f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
@@ -1152,6 +1152,22 @@
 
         doc.unlink()
 
+    def testStandalone(self):
+        doc = parseString('<foo>&#x20ac;</foo>')
+        self.assertEqual(doc.toxml(),
+                         '<?xml version="1.0" ?><foo>\u20ac</foo>')
+        self.assertEqual(doc.toxml(standalone=None),
+                         '<?xml version="1.0" ?><foo>\u20ac</foo>')
+        self.assertEqual(doc.toxml(standalone=True),
+            '<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?><foo>\u20ac</foo>')
+        self.assertEqual(doc.toxml(standalone=False),
+            '<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?><foo>\u20ac</foo>')
+        self.assertEqual(doc.toxml('utf-8', True),
+            b'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>'
+            b'<foo>\xe2\x82\xac</foo>')
+
+        doc.unlink()
+
     class UserDataHandler:
         called = 0
         def handle(self, operation, key, data, src, dst):
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
index 464420b..1083b48 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
@@ -43,10 +43,11 @@
     def __bool__(self):
         return True
 
-    def toxml(self, encoding=None):
-        return self.toprettyxml("", "", encoding)
+    def toxml(self, encoding=None, standalone=None):
+        return self.toprettyxml("", "", encoding, standalone)
 
-    def toprettyxml(self, indent="\t", newl="\n", encoding=None):
+    def toprettyxml(self, indent="\t", newl="\n", encoding=None,
+                    standalone=None):
         if encoding is None:
             writer = io.StringIO()
         else:
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
                                       newline='\n')
         if self.nodeType == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE:
             # Can pass encoding only to document, to put it into XML header
-            self.writexml(writer, "", indent, newl, encoding)
+            self.writexml(writer, "", indent, newl, encoding, standalone)
         else:
             self.writexml(writer, "", indent, newl)
         if encoding is None:
@@ -1787,12 +1788,17 @@
             raise xml.dom.NotSupportedErr("cannot import document type nodes")
         return _clone_node(node, deep, self)
 
-    def writexml(self, writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="", encoding=None):
-        if encoding is None:
-            writer.write('<?xml version="1.0" ?>'+newl)
-        else:
-            writer.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="%s"?>%s' % (
-                encoding, newl))
+    def writexml(self, writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="", encoding=None,
+                 standalone=None):
+        declarations = []
+
+        if encoding:
+            declarations.append(f'encoding="{encoding}"')
+        if standalone is not None:
+            declarations.append(f'standalone="{"yes" if standalone else "no"}"')
+
+        writer.write(f'<?xml version="1.0" {" ".join(declarations)}?>{newl}')
+
         for node in self.childNodes:
             node.writexml(writer, indent, addindent, newl)
 
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index fe24a56..1b5febb 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -659,6 +659,7 @@
 Brian Harring
 Jonathan Hartley
 Travis B. Hartwell
+Henrik Harutyunyan
 Shane Harvey
 Larry Hastings
 Tim Hatch
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-20-00-02-37.bpo-37534.TvjAUi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-20-00-02-37.bpo-37534.TvjAUi.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c9dd29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-20-00-02-37.bpo-37534.TvjAUi.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+When using minidom module to generate XML documents the ability to add Standalone Document Declaration is added.
+All the changes are made to generate a document in compliance with Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) W3C Recommendation (available here: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-prolog-dtd).
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