--- a/src/OdfGenerator.cxx	2026-10-27 15:13:15.676222664 +0100
+++ b/src/OdfGenerator.cxx	2026-10-27 15:13:15.688504347 +0100
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 
 #include <librevenge/librevenge.h>
 
-#include <libxml/parser.h>
 
 #include "DocumentElement.hxx"
 #include "GraphicFunctions.hxx"
@@ -99,75 +98,11 @@
 
 struct XMLException {};
 
-const char *xmlCast(const xmlChar *const str)
+// PubOpener: libxml2 is only needed to embed equation objects, which
+// Publisher files never contain, so we leave it out.
+void appendXML(const std::string &, DocumentElementVector &)
 {
-	return reinterpret_cast<const char *>(str);
-}
-
-static void addAttributes(xmlAttributePtr attr, std::shared_ptr<TagOpenElement> &element)
-{
-	for (; attr; attr = xmlAttributePtr(attr->next))
-	{
-		std::string value;
-
-		for (xmlNodePtr node = attr->children; node; node = node->next)
-			if (node->type == XML_TEXT_NODE)
-				value += xmlCast(node->content);
-		element->addAttribute(xmlCast(attr->name), value.c_str());
-	}
-}
-
-static void appendNameSpace(xmlNsPtr nSpace, std::shared_ptr<TagOpenElement> &element)
-{
-	if (nSpace->type==XML_NAMESPACE_DECL && nSpace->href)
-	{
-		std::string tag("xmlns");
-		if (nSpace->prefix) tag+=std::string(":")+xmlCast(nSpace->prefix);
-		std::string value(xmlCast(nSpace->href));
-		element->addAttribute(tag.c_str(), value.c_str());
-		// FIXME: look also next to check if there is other namespace
-	}
-}
-
-static void appendElements(xmlNodePtr node, DocumentElementVector &out, bool rootNode=false)
-{
-	for (; node; node = node->next)
-	{
-		switch (node->type)
-		{
-		case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
-		{
-			auto element = xmlElementPtr(node);
-			auto tag = std::make_shared<TagOpenElement>(xmlCast(element->name));
-			out.push_back(tag);
-			if (rootNode && node->nsDef) appendNameSpace(node->nsDef, tag);
-			addAttributes(element->attributes, tag);
-			appendElements(element->children, out);
-			out.push_back(std::make_shared<TagCloseElement>(xmlCast(element->name)));
-			break;
-		}
-		case XML_TEXT_NODE:
-			out.push_back(std::make_shared<CharDataElement>(xmlCast(node->content)));
-			break;
-		default:
-			break;
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-void appendXML(const std::string &data, DocumentElementVector &out)
-{
-	std::unique_ptr<xmlDoc, void(*)(xmlDocPtr)> doc
-	{
-		// FIXME: coverity warns that using XML_PARSE_RECOVER is unsafe,
-		// but libstaroffice generates &alpha; , so we must first fix libstaroffice before removing XML_PARSE_RECOVER
-		xmlReadDoc(reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar *>(data.c_str()), "", nullptr,
-		           XML_PARSE_RECOVER | XML_PARSE_NOERROR | XML_PARSE_NOWARNING | XML_PARSE_NONET | XML_PARSE_NOCDATA | XML_PARSE_NSCLEAN),
-		xmlFreeDoc};
-	if (!doc)
-		throw XMLException();
-
-	appendElements(doc->children, out, true);
+	throw XMLException();
 }
 
 }