diff --git a/HTMLparser.c b/HTMLparser.c
index 4d2a343e..b270ce46 100644
--- a/HTMLparser.c
+++ b/HTMLparser.c
@@ -6338,7 +6338,9 @@ htmlCreatePushParserCtxt(htmlSAXHandlerPtr sax, void *user_data,
     if(enc==XML_CHAR_ENCODING_UTF8 || buf->encoder)
 	ctxt->charset=XML_CHAR_ENCODING_UTF8;
     if (sax != NULL) {
+#ifdef LIBXML_SAX1_ENABLED
 	if (ctxt->sax != (xmlSAXHandlerPtr) &htmlDefaultSAXHandler)
+#endif
 	    xmlFree(ctxt->sax);
 	ctxt->sax = (htmlSAXHandlerPtr) xmlMalloc(sizeof(htmlSAXHandler));
 	if (ctxt->sax == NULL) {
diff --git a/SAX2.c b/SAX2.c
index ec89046b..36f74f24 100644
--- a/SAX2.c
+++ b/SAX2.c
@@ -2998,7 +2998,9 @@ xmlSAX2InitHtmlDefaultSAXHandler(xmlSAXHandler *hdlr)
 void
 htmlDefaultSAXHandlerInit(void)
 {
+#ifdef LIBXML_SAX1_ENABLED
     xmlSAX2InitHtmlDefaultSAXHandler((xmlSAXHandlerPtr) &htmlDefaultSAXHandler);
+#endif
 }
 
 #endif /* LIBXML_HTML_ENABLED */
diff --git a/globals.c b/globals.c
index a15ac305..5e42f193 100644
--- a/globals.c
+++ b/globals.c
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ xmlSAXLocator xmlDefaultSAXLocator = {
     xmlSAX2GetColumnNumber
 };
 
-#ifdef LIBXML_HTML_ENABLED
+#if defined(LIBXML_HTML_ENABLED) && defined(LIBXML_SAX1_ENABLED)
 /**
  * htmlDefaultSAXHandler:
  *
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ xmlThrDefOutputBufferCreateFilenameDefault(xmlOutputBufferCreateFilenameFunc fun
     return(old);
 }
 
-#ifdef LIBXML_HTML_ENABLED
+#if defined(LIBXML_HTML_ENABLED) && defined(LIBXML_SAX1_ENABLED)
 #undef	htmlDefaultSAXHandler
 xmlSAXHandlerV1 *
 __htmlDefaultSAXHandler(void) {