diff --git a/Resources/public/js/views/fields/ez-richtext-editview.js b/Resources/public/js/views/fields/ez-richtext-editview.js
index b234f2175..ac7a52fab 100644
--- a/Resources/public/js/views/fields/ez-richtext-editview.js
+++ b/Resources/public/js/views/fields/ez-richtext-editview.js
@@ -266,10 +266,37 @@ YUI.add('ez-richtext-editview', function (Y) {
          * @return {DocumentFragment}
          */
         _getHTMLDocumentFragment: function () {
-            var fragment = Y.config.doc.createDocumentFragment(),
-                root = Y.config.doc.createElement('div'),
+            var fragment = Y.config.doc.implementation.createHTMLDocument().createDocumentFragment(),
+                root = fragment.ownerDocument.createElement('div'),
                 doc = (new DOMParser()).parseFromString(this.get('field').fieldValue.xhtml5edit, "text/xml"),
-                i;
+                importChildNodes = function (parent, element, skipElement) {
+                    // recursively import element and its descendants under
+                    // parent this allows to correctly transform an `xhtml5edit`
+                    // document (it's an XML document) to an HTML document a
+                    // browser can understand.
+                    var i, newElement;
+
+                    if ( skipElement ) {
+                        newElement = parent;
+                    } else {
+                        if ( element.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE ) {
+                            newElement = parent.ownerDocument.createElement(element.localName);
+                            for (i = 0; i != element.attributes.length; i++) {
+                                importChildNodes(newElement, element.attributes[i], false);
+                            }
+                            parent.appendChild(newElement);
+                        } else if ( element.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE ) {
+                            parent.appendChild(parent.ownerDocument.createTextNode(element.nodeValue));
+                        } else if ( element.nodeType === Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE ) {
+                            parent.setAttribute(element.localName, element.value);
+                        } else {
+                            return;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    for (i = 0; i != element.childNodes.length; i++) {
+                        importChildNodes(newElement, element.childNodes[i], false);
+                    }
+                };
 
             if ( !doc || !doc.documentElement || doc.querySelector("parsererror") ) {
                 console.warn(
@@ -279,9 +306,8 @@ YUI.add('ez-richtext-editview', function (Y) {
             }
 
             fragment.appendChild(root);
-            for (i = 0; i != doc.documentElement.childNodes.length; i++) {
-                root.appendChild(doc.documentElement.childNodes.item(i).cloneNode(true));
-            }
+
+            importChildNodes(root, doc.documentElement, true);
             return fragment;
         },
 
diff --git a/Tests/js/views/fields/assets/ez-richtext-editview-tests.js b/Tests/js/views/fields/assets/ez-richtext-editview-tests.js
index 23d6f1506..3911cfabc 100644
--- a/Tests/js/views/fields/assets/ez-richtext-editview-tests.js
+++ b/Tests/js/views/fields/assets/ez-richtext-editview-tests.js
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ YUI.add('ez-richtext-editview-tests', function (Y) {
         editorTest, rerenderEditorTest, focusModeTest, editorFocusHandlingTest, appendToolbarConfigTest,
         eventForwardTest, defaultEditorProcessorsTest, defaultProcessorsTest,
         VALID_XHTML, INVALID_XHTML, RESULT_XHTML, EMPTY_XHTML, RESULT_EMPTY_XHTML,
-        VALID_XHTML_WITH_EMBED,
+        VALID_XHTML_WITH_EMBED, VALID_XHTML_BR, RESULT_BR_XHTML, VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX,
+        RESULT_COMPLEX_XHTML,
         Assert = Y.Assert, Mock = Y.Mock,
         destroyTearDown = function () {
             // setTimeout is needed otherwise, the editor is destroyed while
@@ -27,6 +28,17 @@ YUI.add('ez-richtext-editview-tests', function (Y) {
     VALID_XHTML += '<section xmlns="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish5/xhtml5/edit">';
     VALID_XHTML += '<p>I\'m not empty</p></section>';
 
+    VALID_XHTML_BR = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
+    VALID_XHTML_BR += '<section xmlns="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish5/xhtml5/edit">';
+    VALID_XHTML_BR += '<p>Line<br/>Breaks<br/>Line<br/>Breaks</p></section>';
+
+    VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
+    VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX += '<section xmlns="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish5/xhtml5/edit">';
+    VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX += '<ul><li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li></ul>';
+    VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX += '<p>With<br/>breaks</p>';
+    VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX += '<div data-ezelement="ezembed" view="embed" data-href="ezcontent://52"/>';
+    VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX += '</section>';
+
     VALID_XHTML_WITH_EMBED = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
     VALID_XHTML_WITH_EMBED += '<section xmlns="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish5/xhtml5/edit">';
     VALID_XHTML_WITH_EMBED += '<div data-ezelement="ezembed"></div></section>';
@@ -36,6 +48,12 @@ YUI.add('ez-richtext-editview-tests', function (Y) {
 
     RESULT_EMPTY_XHTML = '<p></p>';
 
+    RESULT_BR_XHTML = '<p>Line<br>Breaks<br>Line<br>Breaks</p>';
+
+    RESULT_COMPLEX_XHTML = '<ul><li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li></ul>';
+    RESULT_COMPLEX_XHTML += '<p>With<br>breaks</p>';
+    RESULT_COMPLEX_XHTML += '<div data-ezelement="ezembed" view="embed" data-href="ezcontent://52"></div>';
+
     RESULT_XHTML = '<p>I\'m not empty</p>';
 
     CKEDITOR.plugins.add('ezaddcontent', {});
@@ -126,7 +144,10 @@ YUI.add('ez-richtext-editview-tests', function (Y) {
                     "The editable class should be available in the template"
                 );
                 Assert.areSame(expectRequired, variables.isRequired);
-                Assert.areSame(expectedXhtml, variables.xhtml);
+                Assert.areSame(
+                    expectedXhtml, variables.xhtml,
+                    "The HTML code should be available in the template"
+                );
 
                 return origTpl.call(this, variables);
             };
@@ -148,6 +169,15 @@ YUI.add('ez-richtext-editview-tests', function (Y) {
         "Should add a paragraph in empty document": function () {
             this._testAvailableVariables(false, false, EMPTY_XHTML, RESULT_EMPTY_XHTML);
         },
+
+        "Should transform the xhtml5edit code to HTML": function () {
+            this._testAvailableVariables(false, false, VALID_XHTML_COMPLEX, RESULT_COMPLEX_XHTML);
+        },
+
+        // regression test for EZP-26135
+        "Should not double the br tag": function () {
+            this._testAvailableVariables(false, false, VALID_XHTML_BR, RESULT_BR_XHTML);
+        },
     });
 
     validateTest = new Y.Test.Case({