diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 79fb54a..196056c 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -349,7 +349,8 @@
                                  'marshal', 'posix', 'signal', 'sys',
                                  '_thread', 'zipimport') or
              (file.startswith(basedir) and
-              not file.startswith(os.path.join(basedir, 'site-packages'))))):
+              not file.startswith(os.path.join(basedir, 'site-packages')))) and
+            object.__name__ not in ('xml.etree')):
             if docloc.startswith("http://"):
                 docloc = "%s/%s" % (docloc.rstrip("/"), object.__name__)
             else:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index b467d2c..14ab6f1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import inspect
 import unittest
 import test.support
+import xml.etree
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from test.support import TESTFN, forget, rmtree, EnvironmentVarGuard
 
@@ -253,6 +254,11 @@
             print_diffs(expected_text, result)
             self.fail("outputs are not equal, see diff above")
 
+    def test_issue8225(self):
+        # Test issue8225 to ensure no doc link appears for xml.etree
+        result, doc_loc = get_pydoc_text(xml.etree)
+        self.assertEqual(doc_loc, "", "MODULE DOCS incorrectly includes a link")
+
     def test_not_here(self):
         missing_module = "test.i_am_not_here"
         result = str(run_pydoc(missing_module), 'ascii')