diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c9052660..153d4c6f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ if(LIBXML2_WITH_TESTS)
 endif()
 
 if(LIBXML2_WITH_DOCS OR LIBXML2_WITH_PYTHON)
-    set(DOXYFILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Doxyfile)
+    set(DOXYFILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile)
     add_custom_command(
         OUTPUT doc/html doc/xml
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index ee7a74d7..7032fbc9 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -207,8 +207,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = Copyright libxml2-config.cmake.in autogen.sh \
 	     timsort.h \
 	     README.zOS README.md \
 	     CMakeLists.txt config.h.cmake.in libxml2-config.cmake.cmake.in \
-	     meson.build meson_options.txt xml2-config-meson \
-	     Doxyfile
+	     meson.build meson_options.txt xml2-config-meson
 
 pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
 pkgconfig_DATA = libxml-2.0.pc
diff --git a/convert_doc.sed b/convert_doc.sed
deleted file mode 100644
index c08613f9..00000000
--- a/convert_doc.sed
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Delete function names
-/^ \* (xml|xlink|html)[_[:alnum:]]+:/ d
-
-# Escape
-/^ \* /s/#/\\#/g
-
-# Convert parameter names
-/^ \* / s/@([_[:alnum:]]+)([^:_[:alnum:]]|$)/`\1`\2/g
-
-# Convert parameters and return values
-s/^ \* +@([_[:alnum:]]+):[  ]*/ * @param \1  /
-s/^ \* +[Rr]eturns?[[:>:]]:?/ * @returns/
-
-# Convert file headers
-s/^ \* +Summary: *(.*)/ * @brief \1\n * /
-s/^ \* +Description: */ * /
-s/^ \* +Copy:/ * @copyright/
-s/^ \* +Author:/ * @author/
-s/^ \* +DEPRECATED:?/ * @deprecated/
-
-# Convert ignored sections
-s/DOC_DISABLE/@cond IGNORE/
-s/DOC_ENABLE/@endcond/
diff --git a/convert_doc.sh b/convert_doc.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index b41ddd83..00000000
--- a/convert_doc.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-set -e
-
-for file in *.c include/libxml/*.h; do
-    sed -E -i '' -f convert_doc.sed $file
-done
-
-for file in include/libxml/*.h; do
-    if [ $file != 'include/libxml/xmlversion.h' ]; then
-        sed -E -i '' -e '1 s,/\*,/**\n * @file\n * ,' $file
-    fi
-done
diff --git a/Doxyfile b/doc/Doxyfile
similarity index 100%
rename from Doxyfile
rename to doc/Doxyfile
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
index 3d6a7f53..e0ad0dbe 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
 
 EXTRA_DIST = \
+	Doxyfile \
+	libxml2.css \
+	mainpage.md \
+	meson.build \
+	xml2-config.1 \
 	xmlcatalog.xml \
-	xmllint.xml \
-	meson.build
+	xmllint.xml
 
 all-local: html.stamp
 
-html.stamp: $(top_srcdir)/Doxyfile
+html.stamp: Doxyfile
 	SOURCE_ROOT=$(top_srcdir)/ BUILD_ROOT=$(top_builddir)/ \
 	    $(DOXYGEN) -q $<
 	@touch $@
diff --git a/doc/meson.build b/doc/meson.build
index 361e7225..7597607c 100644
--- a/doc/meson.build
+++ b/doc/meson.build
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ doxygen_docs = custom_target(
         files('libxml2.css', 'mainpage.md'),
     ],
     output: [ 'html', 'xml' ],
-    command: [ doxygen, '-q', doxyfile ],
+    command: [ doxygen, '-q', files('Doxyfile') ],
     env: {
         'SOURCE_ROOT': meson.project_source_root() + '/',
         'BUILD_ROOT':  meson.project_build_root()  + '/',
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4e1306b8..a8af753d 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -552,7 +552,6 @@ endif
 subdir('example')
 
 if want_docs or want_python
-    doxyfile = files('Doxyfile')
     subdir('doc')
 endif
 
@@ -614,6 +613,7 @@ summary(
         'c14n': want_c14n,
         'catalog': want_catalog,
         'debug': want_debug,
+        'docs': want_docs,
         'history': want_history,
         'html': want_html,
         'http': want_http,