diff --git a/include/libxml/parserInternals.h b/include/libxml/parserInternals.h
index ab512499..513981ea 100644
--- a/include/libxml/parserInternals.h
+++ b/include/libxml/parserInternals.h
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ XMLPUBFUN int
 XMLPUBFUN xmlParserInputPtr
 			xmlNewStringInputStream	(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
 						 const xmlChar *buffer);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN xmlParserInputPtr
 			xmlNewEntityInputStream	(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
 						 xmlEntityPtr entity);
@@ -551,29 +552,38 @@ XMLPUBFUN xmlChar *
 /*
  * Generated by MACROS on top of parser.c c.f. PUSH_AND_POP.
  */
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN int			nodePush		(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
 						 xmlNodePtr value);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN xmlNodePtr		nodePop			(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
 XMLPUBFUN int			inputPush		(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
 						 xmlParserInputPtr value);
 XMLPUBFUN xmlParserInputPtr	inputPop		(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN const xmlChar *	namePop			(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN int			namePush		(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
 						 const xmlChar *value);
 
 /*
  * other commodities shared between parser.c and parserInternals.
  */
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN int			xmlSkipBlankChars	(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN int			xmlStringCurrentChar	(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
 						 const xmlChar *cur,
 						 int *len);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN void			xmlParserHandlePEReference(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN int			xmlCheckLanguageID	(const xmlChar *lang);
 
 /*
  * Really core function shared with HTML parser.
  */
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN int			xmlCurrentChar		(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt,
 						 int *len);
 XMLPUBFUN int		xmlCopyCharMultiByte	(xmlChar *out,
@@ -581,6 +591,7 @@ XMLPUBFUN int		xmlCopyCharMultiByte	(xmlChar *out,
 XMLPUBFUN int			xmlCopyChar		(int len,
 						 xmlChar *out,
 						 int val);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN void			xmlNextChar		(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
 XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN void			xmlParserInputShrink	(xmlParserInputPtr in);
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 9ed64c9e..c6383f6e 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -1376,6 +1376,8 @@ xmlCleanSpecialAttr(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt)
  * xmlCheckLanguageID:
  * @lang:  pointer to the string value
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * Checks that the value conforms to the LanguageID production:
  *
  * NOTE: this is somewhat deprecated, those productions were removed from
@@ -1750,6 +1752,8 @@ inputPop(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt)
  * @ctxt:  an XML parser context
  * @value:  the element node
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * Pushes a new element node on top of the node stack
  *
  * Returns -1 in case of error, the index in the stack otherwise
@@ -1788,6 +1792,8 @@ nodePush(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, xmlNodePtr value)
  * nodePop:
  * @ctxt: an XML parser context
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * Pops the top element node from the node stack
  *
  * Returns the node just removed
@@ -1899,6 +1905,8 @@ nameNsPop(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt)
  * @ctxt:  an XML parser context
  * @value:  the element name
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * Pushes a new element name on top of the name stack
  *
  * Returns -1 in case of error, the index in the stack otherwise
@@ -1926,10 +1934,13 @@ mem_error:
     xmlErrMemory(ctxt, NULL);
     return (-1);
 }
+
 /**
  * namePop:
  * @ctxt: an XML parser context
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * Pops the top element name from the name stack
  *
  * Returns the name just removed
@@ -2098,6 +2109,8 @@ static int spacePop(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt) {
  * xmlSkipBlankChars:
  * @ctxt:  the XML parser context
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * skip all blanks character found at that point in the input streams.
  * It pops up finished entities in the process if allowable at that point.
  *
@@ -2473,6 +2486,8 @@ xmlParseStringCharRef(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, const xmlChar **str) {
  * xmlParserHandlePEReference:
  * @ctxt:  the parser context
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * [69] PEReference ::= '%' Name ';'
  *
  * [ WFC: No Recursion ]
diff --git a/parserInternals.c b/parserInternals.c
index 95c91660..9eb226f1 100644
--- a/parserInternals.c
+++ b/parserInternals.c
@@ -513,6 +513,8 @@ xmlParserInputShrink(xmlParserInputPtr in) {
  * xmlNextChar:
  * @ctxt:  the XML parser context
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * Skip to the next char input char.
  */
 
@@ -658,6 +660,8 @@ encoding_error:
  * @ctxt:  the XML parser context
  * @len:  pointer to the length of the char read
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * The current char value, if using UTF-8 this may actually span multiple
  * bytes in the input buffer. Implement the end of line normalization:
  * 2.11 End-of-Line Handling
@@ -818,6 +822,8 @@ encoding_error:
  * @cur:  pointer to the beginning of the char
  * @len:  pointer to the length of the char read
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * The current char value, if using UTF-8 this may actually span multiple
  * bytes in the input buffer.
  *
@@ -1394,6 +1400,8 @@ xmlNewIOInputStream(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, xmlParserInputBufferPtr input,
  * @ctxt:  an XML parser context
  * @entity:  an Entity pointer
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
+ *
  * Create a new input stream based on an xmlEntityPtr
  *
  * Returns the new input stream or NULL
diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py
index 989c38e1..3a5db228 100755
--- a/python/generator.py
+++ b/python/generator.py
@@ -293,6 +293,11 @@ deprecated_funcs = {
     'htmlInitAutoClose': True,
     'htmlParseCharRef': True,
     'htmlParseElement': True,
+    'namePop': True,
+    'namePush': True,
+    'nodePop': True,
+    'nodePush': True,
+    'xmlCheckLanguageID': True,
     'xmlCleanupCharEncodingHandlers': True,
     'xmlCleanupGlobals': True,
     'xmlDefaultSAXHandlerInit': True,
@@ -312,6 +317,7 @@ deprecated_funcs = {
     'xmlNanoFTPProxy': True,
     'xmlNanoFTPScanProxy': True,
     'xmlNewGlobalNs': True,
+    'xmlNextChar': True,
     'xmlParseAttValue': True,
     'xmlParseAttributeListDecl': True,
     'xmlParseCDSect': True,
@@ -346,6 +352,7 @@ deprecated_funcs = {
     'xmlParseVersionInfo': True,
     'xmlParseVersionNum': True,
     'xmlParseXMLDecl': True,
+    'xmlParserHandlePEReference': True,
     'xmlParserHandleReference': True,
     'xmlRecoverDoc': True,
     'xmlRecoverFile': True,
@@ -358,6 +365,7 @@ deprecated_funcs = {
     'xmlSchemaCleanupTypes': True,
     'xmlSchemaInitTypes': True,
     'xmlSetupParserForBuffer': True,
+    'xmlSkipBlankChars': True,
     'xmlStringDecodeEntities': True,
     'xmlStringLenDecodeEntities': True,
     'xmlThrDefDefaultBufferSize': True,
diff --git a/testchar.c b/testchar.c
index a3f2e4f4..e5916d09 100644
--- a/testchar.c
+++ b/testchar.c
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
  * copy: see Copyright for the status of this software.
  */
 
+#define XML_DEPRECATED
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <libxml/tree.h>