diff --git a/docxtpl/subdoc.py b/docxtpl/subdoc.py
index e8da093..994a16b 100644
--- a/docxtpl/subdoc.py
+++ b/docxtpl/subdoc.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 from docxcompose.composer import Composer
 from docxcompose.utils import NS
 from lxml import etree
-import re
 
 
 class SubdocComposer(Composer):
@@ -84,14 +83,10 @@ def __getattr__(self, name):
     def _get_xml(self):
         if self.subdocx.element.body.sectPr is not None:
             self.subdocx.element.body.remove(self.subdocx.element.body.sectPr)
-        xml = re.sub(
-            r"</?w:body[^>]*>",
-            "",
-            etree.tostring(
-                self.subdocx.element.body, encoding="unicode", pretty_print=False
-            ),
+        return "".join(
+            etree.tostring(element, encoding="unicode", pretty_print=False)
+            for element in self.subdocx.element.body
         )
-        return xml
 
     def __unicode__(self):
         return self._get_xml()
diff --git a/tests/pandoc_subdoc.py b/tests/pandoc_subdoc.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5aa2379
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pandoc_subdoc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import io
+import zipfile
+
+from docx import Document
+from lxml import etree
+
+from docxtpl import DocxTemplate
+
+
+main_template = Document()
+main_template.add_paragraph("{{p subdoc }}")
+main_template_stream = io.BytesIO()
+main_template.save(main_template_stream)
+main_template_stream.seek(0)
+
+template = DocxTemplate(main_template_stream)
+subdoc = template.new_subdoc("templates/pandoc_subdoc.docx")
+template.render({"subdoc": subdoc})
+output_stream = io.BytesIO()
+template.save(output_stream)
+
+output_stream.seek(0)
+document = Document(output_stream)
+assert len(document.inline_shapes) == 1
+
+output_stream.seek(0)
+with zipfile.ZipFile(output_stream) as archive:
+    document_xml = archive.read("word/document.xml")
+
+root = etree.fromstring(document_xml)
+assert root.find(".//{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main}graphic") is not None
+assert root.find(".//{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/picture}pic") is not None
diff --git a/tests/templates/pandoc_subdoc.docx b/tests/templates/pandoc_subdoc.docx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0816b38
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