diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
index 64bcab1eb1..44951cb61d 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public static function addHtml($element, $html, $fullHTML = false)
         // Load DOM
         $dom = new \DOMDocument();
         $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = true;
-        $dom->loadXML($html);
+        $dom->loadXML($html,LIBXML_NOCDATA);
         $node = $dom->getElementsByTagName('body');
 
         self::parseNode($node->item(0), $element);