diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index 450e8ac77b..f46145cf9b 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   <include href='storagecommon.rng'/>
   <include href='networkcommon.rng'/>
   <include href='cputypes.rng'/>
+  <include href='nwfilter_params.rng'/>
 
   <!--
     description and title element, may be placed anywhere under the root
@@ -5407,22 +5408,6 @@
     </element>
   </define>
 
-  <define name="filterref-node-attributes">
-    <attribute name="filter">
-      <data type="NCName"/>
-    </attribute>
-    <zeroOrMore>
-      <element name="parameter">
-        <attribute name="name">
-          <ref name="filter-param-name"/>
-        </attribute>
-        <attribute name="value">
-          <ref name="filter-param-value"/>
-        </attribute>
-      </element>
-    </zeroOrMore>
-  </define>
-
   <define name="deviceBoot">
     <element name="boot">
       <attribute name="order">
@@ -6149,16 +6134,6 @@
       <param name="pattern">[a-zA-Z0-9_\.\+\-/]+</param>
     </data>
   </define>
-  <define name="filter-param-name">
-    <data type="string">
-      <param name="pattern">[a-zA-Z0-9_]+</param>
-    </data>
-  </define>
-  <define name="filter-param-value">
-    <data type="string">
-      <param name="pattern">[a-zA-Z0-9_\.:]+</param>
-    </data>
-  </define>
   <define name="spaprvioReg">
     <data type="string">
       <param name="pattern">(0x)?[0-9a-fA-F]{1,16}</param>
diff --git a/docs/schemas/nwfilter.rng b/docs/schemas/nwfilter.rng
index 17cda5c78d..f06ae9db76 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/nwfilter.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/nwfilter.rng
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <grammar ns="" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
   <include href='basictypes.rng'/>
+  <include href='nwfilter_params.rng'/>
   <start>
     <ref name="filter"/>
   </start>
@@ -246,22 +247,6 @@
     </optional>
   </define>
 
-  <define name="filterref-node-attributes">
-    <attribute name="filter">
-      <data type="NCName"/>
-    </attribute>
-    <zeroOrMore>
-      <element name="parameter">
-        <attribute name="name">
-          <ref name="filter-param-name"/>
-        </attribute>
-        <attribute name="value">
-          <ref name="filter-param-value"/>
-        </attribute>
-      </element>
-    </zeroOrMore>
-  </define>
-
   <define name="rule-node-attributes">
     <attribute name="action">
       <ref name='action-type'/>
@@ -938,18 +923,6 @@
     </choice>
   </define>
 
-  <define name="filter-param-name">
-    <data type="string">
-      <param name="pattern">[a-zA-Z0-9_]+</param>
-    </data>
-  </define>
-
-  <define name="filter-param-value">
-    <data type="string">
-      <param name="pattern">[a-zA-Z0-9_\.:]+</param>
-    </data>
-  </define>
-
   <define name='action-type'>
     <choice>
       <value>drop</value>
diff --git a/docs/schemas/nwfilter_params.rng b/docs/schemas/nwfilter_params.rng
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3e7b35b6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/schemas/nwfilter_params.rng
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!-- network-related definitions used in multiple grammars -->
+<grammar xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
+
+  <define name="filterref-node-attributes">
+    <attribute name="filter">
+      <data type="NCName"/>
+    </attribute>
+    <zeroOrMore>
+      <element name="parameter">
+        <attribute name="name">
+          <ref name="filter-param-name"/>
+        </attribute>
+        <attribute name="value">
+          <ref name="filter-param-value"/>
+        </attribute>
+      </element>
+    </zeroOrMore>
+  </define>
+
+  <define name="filter-param-name">
+    <data type="string">
+      <param name="pattern">[a-zA-Z0-9_]+</param>
+    </data>
+  </define>
+  <define name="filter-param-value">
+    <data type="string">
+      <param name="pattern">[a-zA-Z0-9_\.:]+</param>
+    </data>
+  </define>
+
+</grammar>
diff --git a/docs/schemas/nwfilterbinding.rng b/docs/schemas/nwfilterbinding.rng
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9c8e5a83cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/schemas/nwfilterbinding.rng
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<grammar xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
+  <!-- domain-related definitions used in multiple grammars -->
+  <include href='basictypes.rng'/>
+  <include href='nwfilter_params.rng'/>
+
+  <start>
+    <ref name="filterbinding"/>
+  </start>
+
+  <define name="filterbinding">
+    <element name="filterbinding">
+      <interleave>
+        <element name="owner">
+          <element name="name">
+            <text/>
+          </element>
+          <element name="uuid">
+            <ref name="UUID"/>
+          </element>
+        </element>
+
+        <element name="portdev">
+          <attribute name="name"/>
+          <empty/>
+        </element>
+
+        <optional>
+          <element name="linkdev">
+            <attribute name="name"/>
+            <empty/>
+          </element>
+        </optional>
+
+        <element name="mac">
+          <attribute name="address">
+            <ref name="uniMacAddr"/>
+          </attribute>
+          <empty/>
+        </element>
+
+        <element name="filterref">
+          <ref name="filterref-node-attributes"/>
+        </element>
+      </interleave>
+    </element>
+  </define>
+
+</grammar>
diff --git a/tests/virschematest.c b/tests/virschematest.c
index aa65a434ff..3614fb1c68 100644
--- a/tests/virschematest.c
+++ b/tests/virschematest.c
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ mymain(void)
                 "networkxml2xmlout", "networkxml2confdata");
     DO_TEST_DIR("nodedev.rng", "nodedevschemadata");
     DO_TEST_DIR("nwfilter.rng", "nwfilterxml2xmlout", "../examples/xml/nwfilter");
+    DO_TEST_DIR("nwfilterbinding.rng", "virnwfilterbindingxml2xmldata");
     DO_TEST_DIR("secret.rng", "secretxml2xmlin");
     DO_TEST_DIR("storagepool.rng", "storagepoolxml2xmlin", "storagepoolxml2xmlout",
                 "storagepoolschemadata");