diff --git a/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js b/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js
index 9109853e6..4fc2e686c 100644
--- a/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js
+++ b/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js
@@ -213,13 +213,10 @@ async function doImport(req, res, padId)
      * title and comment it out independently on the classes that are set on it.
      *
      * @todo what happens if <title is used somewhere in the pad? need proper XML parser
+     * @todo does not work all the time
      */
-    if (text.match(/<\/title>/)){
-      text = text.replace("<title", "<!-- <title");
-      text = text.replace("</title>","</title>-->");
-    } else {
-      text = text.replace(/<title[^>]*\/>/,'');
-    }
+    text = text.replace("<title", "<!-- <title");
+    text = text.replace("</title>","</title>-->");
 
     // node on windows has a delay on releasing of the file lock.
     // We add a 100ms delay to work around this