diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
index 95ded0a6..17225f0a 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
@@ -138,8 +138,9 @@ module Precious
       #
       def page_header_from_content(content)
         doc = build_document(content)
-        title = find_header_node(doc)
-        Sanitize.clean(title.to_xml( @@to_xml )).strip unless title.empty?
+        title = find_header_node(doc).inner_text.strip
+        title = nil if title.empty?
+        title
       end
 
       # Returns page content without title if it was extracted.
diff --git a/test/test_page_view.rb b/test/test_page_view.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e3f575b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_page_view.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# ~*~ encoding: utf-8 ~*~
+require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'helper'))
+require File.expand_path '../../lib/gollum/frontend/views/page', __FILE__
+
+context "Precious::Views::Page" do
+  setup do
+    @path = testpath("examples/test.git")
+    FileUtils.rm_rf(@path)
+    @repo = Grit::Repo.init_bare(@path)
+    @wiki = Gollum::Wiki.new(@path)
+  end
+
+  teardown do
+    FileUtils.rm_r(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), *%w[examples test.git]))
+  end
+
+  test "h1 title sanitizes correctly" do
+    title = 'H1'
+    @wiki.write_page(title, :markdown, '# 1 & 2 <script>alert("js")</script>' + "\n # 3", commit_details)
+    page = @wiki.page(title)
+
+    @view = Precious::Views::Page.new
+    @view.instance_variable_set :@page, page
+    @view.instance_variable_set :@content, page.formatted_data
+    @view.instance_variable_set :@h1_title, true
+
+    # Test page_header_from_content(@content)
+    actual = @view.title
+    assert_equal '1 & 2', actual
+  end
+
+  test "h1 title can be disabled" do
+    title = 'H1'
+    @wiki.write_page(title, :markdown, '# 1 & 2 <script>alert("js")</script>' + "\n # 3", commit_details)
+    page = @wiki.page(title)
+
+    @view = Precious::Views::Page.new
+    @view.instance_variable_set :@page, page
+    @view.instance_variable_set :@content, page.formatted_data
+    @view.instance_variable_set :@h1_title, false
+
+    # Title is based on file name when h1_title is false.
+    actual = @view.title
+    assert_equal 'H1', title
+  end
+end
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