diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
index c71af316c0..3b00dc3d32 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
@@ -710,10 +710,9 @@ class Crawler implements \Countable, \IteratorAggregate
      */
     public function selectLink($value)
     {
-        $xpath = sprintf('descendant-or-self::a[contains(concat(\' \', normalize-space(string(.)), \' \'), %s) ', static::xpathLiteral(' '.$value.' ')).
-                            sprintf('or ./img[contains(concat(\' \', normalize-space(string(@alt)), \' \'), %s)]]', static::xpathLiteral(' '.$value.' '));
-
-        return $this->filterRelativeXPath($xpath);
+        return $this->filterRelativeXPath(
+            sprintf('descendant-or-self::a[contains(concat(\' \', normalize-space(string(.)), \' \'), %1$s) or ./img[contains(concat(\' \', normalize-space(string(@alt)), \' \'), %1$s)]]', static::xpathLiteral(' '.$value.' '))
+        );
     }
 
     /**