diff --git a/doc/apibuild.py b/doc/apibuild.py
index 0a4a0ea2..0bc7edbd 100755
--- a/doc/apibuild.py
+++ b/doc/apibuild.py
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ ignored_files = {
   "testdso.c": "test for dynamid shared libraries",
   "testrecurse.c": "test for entities recursions",
   "timsort.h": "Internal header only for xpath.c 2.9.0",
+  "nanoftp.h": "empty",
+  "SAX.h": "empty",
 }
 
 ignored_words = {
diff --git a/doc/libxml2-api.xml b/doc/libxml2-api.xml
index 65a3bd06..0a7318fb 100644
--- a/doc/libxml2-api.xml
+++ b/doc/libxml2-api.xml
@@ -112,12 +112,6 @@
      <exports symbol='htmlSaveFileFormat' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='htmlSetMetaEncoding' type='function'/>
     </file>
-    <file name='SAX'>
-     <summary>Old SAX version 1 handler, deprecated</summary>
-     <description>DEPRECATED set of SAX version 1 interfaces used to build the DOM tree. </description>
-     <author>Daniel Veillard </author>
-     <deprecated/>
-    </file>
     <file name='SAX2'>
      <summary>SAX2 parser interface used to build the DOM tree</summary>
      <description>those are the default SAX2 interfaces used by the library when building DOM tree. </description>
@@ -488,10 +482,6 @@
      <exports symbol='xmlListWalk' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='xmlListWalker' type='function'/>
     </file>
-    <file name='nanoftp'>
-     <summary>Removed legacy symbols for an outdated FTP client </summary>
-     <author>Daniel Veillard </author>
-    </file>
     <file name='nanohttp'>
      <summary>minimal HTTP implementation</summary>
      <description>minimal HTTP implementation allowing to fetch resources like external subset. </description>