diff --git a/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js b/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js
index 4fc2e686c..25d98f09a 100644
--- a/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js
+++ b/src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js
@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ async function doImport(req, res, padId)
      * @todo what happens if <title is used somewhere in the pad? need proper XML parser
      * @todo does not work all the time
      */
-    text = text.replace("<title", "<!-- <title");
-    text = text.replace("</title>","</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
diff --git a/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js b/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
index 2dde8c6c1..ff7c76b59 100644
--- a/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
+++ b/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ const Changeset         = require("ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/Changeset");
 const contentcollector  = require("ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/contentcollector");
 const cheerio           = require("cheerio");
 const rehype            = require("rehype")
-const format            = require("rehype-format")
+//const format            = require("rehype-format")
 
 
 exports.setPadHTML = function(pad, html)
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ exports.setPadHTML = function(pad, html)
   }
 
   rehype()
-    .use(format, opts)
+//    .use(format, opts)
     .process(html, function(err, output){
-      //html = String(output).replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"");
+      html = String(output).replace(/(\n\r|\n|\r)/gm," ");
   })
 
   var $ = cheerio.load(html);