diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index e983212..03c0d09 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@
                                  '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 168c4d1..d23de74 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import pydoc
 import inspect
 import unittest
+import xml.etree
 import test.test_support
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from test.test_support import TESTFN, forget, rmtree, EnvironmentVarGuard
@@ -236,6 +237,11 @@
             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 = run_pydoc(missing_module)