diff --git a/src/tools/qdoc/ditaxmlgenerator.cpp b/src/tools/qdoc/ditaxmlgenerator.cpp
index fc02331170..9e22d08a40 100644
--- a/src/tools/qdoc/ditaxmlgenerator.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/qdoc/ditaxmlgenerator.cpp
@@ -2548,7 +2548,10 @@ void DitaXmlGenerator::generateHeader(const Node* node,
     if (!outputclass.isEmpty())
         xmlWriter().writeAttribute("outputclass",outputclass);
     writeStartTag(nameTag); // <title> or <apiName>
-    writeCharacters(name);
+    if (!name.isEmpty())
+        writeCharacters(name);
+    else
+        writeCharacters(node->name());
     writeEndTag(); // </title> or </apiName>
 }