diff --git a/Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl b/Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl
index e8477f58cdb..ba2e9b3779d 100755
--- a/Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl
+++ b/Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ $data =~ s{(\S+)[\t ]+}
{$1}g;
msg ("Removing PARA around INDEXTERM if no text in PARA...");
-$data =~ s{((?:(?:<(primary|secondary)>[^>]+\2>)+?)+?)\s*}
+$data =~ s{((?:(?:<(primary|secondary)>[^>]+\2>)+?)+?)\s*}
{$1}gs;
@apx = ("Users", "MySQL Testimonials", "News", "GPL-license", "LGPL-license");