diff --git a/.reuse/dep5 b/.reuse/dep5
index fb98df46..8eeb0982 100644
--- a/.reuse/dep5
+++ b/.reuse/dep5
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Files: doc/*.png doc/*.svg
 Copyright: 2016 Emmanuele Bassi
 License: CC-BY-4.0
 
-Files: doc/graphene-docs.xml doc/graphene-overrides.txt doc/graphene-sections.txt doc/xml/gtkdocentities.ent.in
+Files: doc/graphene-docs.xml doc/graphene-overrides.txt doc/graphene-sections.txt
 Copyright: 2014 Emmanuele Bassi
 License: MIT
 
diff --git a/doc/meson.build b/doc/meson.build
index 0007a83a..1b82fdb5 100644
--- a/doc/meson.build
+++ b/doc/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-subdir('xml')
-
 private_headers = [
   'config.h',
 
diff --git a/doc/xml/gtkdocentities.ent.in b/doc/xml/gtkdocentities.ent.in
deleted file mode 100644
index f12c9ff7..00000000
--- a/doc/xml/gtkdocentities.ent.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<!ENTITY package "@PACKAGE@">
-<!ENTITY package_bugreport "@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@">
-<!ENTITY package_name "@PACKAGE_NAME@">
-<!ENTITY package_string "@PACKAGE_STRING@">
-<!ENTITY package_tarname "@PACKAGE_TARNAME@">
-<!ENTITY package_url "@PACKAGE_URL@">
-<!ENTITY package_version "@PACKAGE_VERSION@">
-<!ENTITY package_api_version "@PACKAGE_API_VERSION@">
diff --git a/doc/xml/meson.build b/doc/xml/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c02ba0b..00000000
--- a/doc/xml/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-ent_conf = configuration_data()
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE', 'Graphene')
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE_BUGREPORT', 'https://github.com/ebassi/graphene/issues')
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE_NAME', 'Graphene')
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE_STRING', 'graphene')
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE_TARNAME', 'graphene-' + meson.project_version())
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE_URL', 'http://ebassi.github.io/graphene')
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE_VERSION', meson.project_version())
-ent_conf.set('PACKAGE_API_VERSION', graphene_api_version)
-configure_file(input: 'gtkdocentities.ent.in', output: 'gtkdocentities.ent', configuration: ent_conf)