diff --git a/inc/parser/xhtml.php b/inc/parser/xhtml.php
index 0ee04e5a1a9c26503c9246baa6a93919c0c8eea1..f9a33fef0db030916f81dccdeb9207b52ed366a4 100644
--- a/inc/parser/xhtml.php
+++ b/inc/parser/xhtml.php
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ class Doku_Renderer_xhtml extends Doku_Renderer {
 
         $params = array();
 
-        if (preg_match('/^([^?]*)\?([^?]+)$/', $id, $matches) !== false) {
+        if (preg_match('/^([^?]*)\?([^?]+)$/', $id, $matches)) {
             $id = $matches[1];
             preg_match_all('/(?<=[&^])([^=]+)=([^=]*)(?:&|$)/', $matches[2],
                            $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);