diff --git a/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py b/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py
index 3a156f69be7..3efadce2ba4 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py
@@ -380,7 +380,17 @@ class Web_Editor(http.Controller):
 
             # Create a view to extend the template which adds the original file to link the new modified version instead
             IrUiView = request.env["ir.ui.view"]
-            view_to_xpath = IrUiView.get_related_views(bundle_xmlid, bundles=True).filtered(lambda v: v.arch.find(url) >= 0)
+
+            def views_linking_url(view):
+                """
+                Returns whether the view arch has some html link tag linked to the url.
+
+                (note: searching for the URL string is not enough as it could appear in a comment or an xpath expression.)
+                """
+                return bool(etree.XML(view.arch).xpath("link[@href='{}']".format(url)))
+
+            view_to_xpath = IrUiView.get_related_views(bundle_xmlid, bundles=True).filtered(views_linking_url)
+
             IrUiView.create(dict(
                 name = custom_url,
                 mode = "extension",