diff --git a/libxml2.spec b/libxml2.spec
index 1544b4b..52b8789 100644
--- a/libxml2.spec
+++ b/libxml2.spec
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/*.la
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-%{version}/*
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/libxml2-python-%{version}/*
 (cd doc/examples ; make clean ; rm -rf .deps Makefile)
-gzip -9 -c doc/libxml2-api.xml > doc/libxml2-api.xml.gz
 
 %check
 make runtests
@@ -160,8 +159,8 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 %files devel
 %doc %{_mandir}/man1/xml2-config.1*
 %doc AUTHORS NEWS README Copyright
-%doc doc/*.html doc/html doc/*.gif doc/*.png
-%doc doc/tutorial doc/libxml2-api.xml.gz
+%doc doc/*.html doc/*.gif doc/*.png
+%doc doc/tutorial
 %doc doc/examples
 %doc %dir %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/libxml2
 %doc %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/libxml2/*.devhelp
@@ -205,6 +204,9 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 - remove %%defattr from %%files (no longer needed)
 - do not build and package libxml2 static library as none of other packages
   is using static libxml2 librarys (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries)
+- removed 2nd copy of the libxml2 API documentation (doc/html it is
+  the same as in %%{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/libxml2) and 3rd copy in source xml
+  (devel package is now 30% smaller)
 
 * Fri Sep 22 2017 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 2.9.5-2
 - Fix reporting error about undefined XPath variables (bug #1493613)