diff --git a/include/libxml/tree.h b/include/libxml/tree.h
index bc99548b..433120a1 100644
--- a/include/libxml/tree.h
+++ b/include/libxml/tree.h
@@ -1288,8 +1288,10 @@ XMLPUBFUN int
 XMLPUBFUN void
 		xmlSetDocCompressMode	(xmlDocPtr doc,
 					 int mode);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN int
 		xmlGetCompressMode	(void);
+XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN void
 		xmlSetCompressMode	(int mode);
 
diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py
index 081a67f2..11f58c73 100755
--- a/python/generator.py
+++ b/python/generator.py
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ deprecated_funcs = {
     'xmlDictCleanup': True,
     'xmlEncodeEntities': True,
     'xmlFileMatch': True,
+    'xmlGetCompressMode': True,
     'xmlHandleEntity': True,
     'xmlInitCharEncodingHandlers': True,
     'xmlInitGlobals': True,
@@ -378,6 +379,7 @@ deprecated_funcs = {
     'xmlScanName': True,
     'xmlSchemaCleanupTypes': True,
     'xmlSchemaInitTypes': True,
+    'xmlSetCompressMode': True,
     'xmlSetupParserForBuffer': True,
     'xmlSkipBlankChars': True,
     'xmlStringDecodeEntities': True,
diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index 8e91d3af..6eb677f8 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -7673,6 +7673,8 @@ xmlSetDocCompressMode (xmlDocPtr doc, int mode) {
 /**
  * xmlGetCompressMode:
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Use xmlGetDocCompressMode
+ *
  * get the default compression mode used, ZLIB based.
  * Returns 0 (uncompressed) to 9 (max compression)
  */
@@ -7686,6 +7688,8 @@ xmlGetCompressMode(void)
  * xmlSetCompressMode:
  * @mode:  the compression ratio
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Use xmlSetDocCompressMode
+ *
  * set the default compression mode used, ZLIB based
  * Correct values: 0 (uncompressed) to 9 (max compression)
  */
diff --git a/xmllint.c b/xmllint.c
index 9bf23f1f..9122ec2f 100644
--- a/xmllint.c
+++ b/xmllint.c
@@ -2521,6 +2521,9 @@ static void parseAndPrintFile(char *filename, xmlParserCtxtPtr rectxt) {
     if (noout == 0) {
         int ret;
 
+        if (compress)
+            xmlSetDocCompressMode(doc, 9);
+
 	/*
 	 * print it.
 	 */
@@ -3359,7 +3362,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 	else if ((!strcmp(argv[i], "-compress")) ||
 	         (!strcmp(argv[i], "--compress"))) {
 	    compress++;
-	    xmlSetCompressMode(9);
         }
 #endif
 #endif /* LIBXML_OUTPUT_ENABLED */