diff --git a/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/html_to_odt.py b/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/html_to_odt.py
index 1c2881a8e7ac1d21759eb05d4ad64005dcf9a7f0..582e677a7a13d8fc0c994d89c5d49c2b74bf7ad3 100644
--- a/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/html_to_odt.py
+++ b/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/html_to_odt.py
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ class HTMLToOdt:
                                   'content': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'})
     orig = html.tostring(html_node, encoding='utf-8', method='xml')
 
+    # workaround a Bug in LibreOffice HTML import filter.
+    # https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36080
+    orig = orig.replace('<title/>', '<title></title>')
+    import pdb;pdb.set_trace()
     doc = OOOdCommandTransform(context, filename, orig, self.inputs[0])
     odt = doc.convertTo('odt')
     if cache is not None:
diff --git a/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/oood_commandtransform.py b/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/oood_commandtransform.py
index 821272b11975333606c24164b9edb2ea1415b10f..e70d3d4b0f3586dc96ee5d34030ac20e24049a98 100644
--- a/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/oood_commandtransform.py
+++ b/product/ERP5OOo/transforms/oood_commandtransform.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from zLOG import LOG
 from Products.ERP5OOo.OOoUtils import OOoBuilder
 import re
 from lxml import etree
+from lxml import html
 from lxml.etree import ParseError, Element
 
 from urllib import unquote
@@ -193,8 +194,9 @@ class OOOdCommandTransform(commandtransform):
           parent_node.append(style_node)
           style_node.attrib.update({'type': 'text/css'})
           parent_node.remove(css_link_tag)
-    return etree.tostring(xml_doc, encoding='utf-8',
-                          xml_declaration=False, pretty_print=False, )
+    xml_output = html.tostring(xml_doc, encoding='utf-8', method='xml')
+    xml_output = xml_output.replace('<title/>', '<title></title>')
+    return xml_output
 
   def convertTo(self, format):
     server_proxy = OOoServerProxy(self.context)