diff --git a/packages/epub-utils/package.json b/packages/epub-utils/package.json
index 4cf40685..79156eec 100644
--- a/packages/epub-utils/package.json
+++ b/packages/epub-utils/package.json
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     "fs-extra": "^6.0.1",
     "tmp": "^0.0.33",
     "winston": "^2.4.0",
-    "xmldom-alpha": "https://github.com/fchasen/xmldom.git#a38f7ddb536ab74e9fb549477ba9f9b7ea2d0beb",
+    "xmldom-alpha": "^0.1.28",
     "xpath": "^0.0.24"
   },
   "publishConfig": {
diff --git a/packages/epub-utils/src/epub-parse.js b/packages/epub-utils/src/epub-parse.js
index 6686ac23..bbd2b9ee 100644
--- a/packages/epub-utils/src/epub-parse.js
+++ b/packages/epub-utils/src/epub-parse.js
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ function EpubParser() {
 
 function parseNavDoc(fullpath, epubDir) {
   const content = fs.readFileSync(fullpath).toString();
-  const doc = new DOMParser({errorHandler}).parseFromString(content, 'application/xhtml+xml');
+  //FIXME hack to workaround xmldom-alpha regex test
+  const doc = new DOMParser({errorHandler}).parseFromString(content, 'application/xhtml');
 
   // Remove all links
   const aElems = doc.getElementsByTagNameNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'a');
@@ -175,7 +176,8 @@ EpubParser.prototype.parseData = function(packageDocPath, epubDir) {
 
 EpubParser.prototype.parseContentDocTitle = function(filepath) {
   const content = fs.readFileSync(filepath).toString();
-  const doc = new DOMParser({errorHandler}).parseFromString(content, 'application/xhtml+xml');
+  //FIXME hack to workaround xmldom-alpha regex test
+  const doc = new DOMParser({errorHandler}).parseFromString(content, 'application/xhtml');
   const select = xpath.useNamespaces({html: "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", epub: "http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"});
   const title = select('//html:title/text()', doc);
   if (title.length > 0) {
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index c5d87923..5f6a9732 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -6080,9 +6080,9 @@ xmlbuilder@~9.0.1:
   version "9.0.7"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/xmlbuilder/-/xmlbuilder-9.0.7.tgz#132ee63d2ec5565c557e20f4c22df9aca686b10d"
 
-"xmldom-alpha@https://github.com/fchasen/xmldom.git#a38f7ddb536ab74e9fb549477ba9f9b7ea2d0beb":
+xmldom-alpha@^0.1.28:
   version "0.1.28"
-  resolved "https://github.com/fchasen/xmldom.git#a38f7ddb536ab74e9fb549477ba9f9b7ea2d0beb"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/xmldom-alpha/-/xmldom-alpha-0.1.28.tgz#4e8451d8df4d7bb303baae0bde783062f9d3d600"
 
 xpath@^0.0.24:
   version "0.0.24"