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When you disable all XML support, the XML help set should also be disabled but it continues to display. Probably because it lives in xml/core/javahelp, which I assume doesn't get disabled.
Diabling is not everyday use case. Yes, you need to disable xml/core. We wait here for javahelp improvements in help modularity area.
XML help was moved into the usersguide module.