diff --git a/libmat2/office.py b/libmat2/office.py
index ee6cf916954c94dc279c3d95789cd11e1314d2bc..db4b3e3db35bd92d21d4f82ad51a27dbe55f94fd 100644
--- a/libmat2/office.py
+++ b/libmat2/office.py
@@ -300,18 +300,13 @@ class MSOfficeParser(ArchiveBasedAbstractParser):
         Yes, I know that parsing xml with regexp ain't pretty,
         be my guest and fix it if you want.
         """
-        if not file_path.startswith('docProps/'):
-            return {}
-        elif not file_path.endswith('.xml'):
+        if not file_path.startswith('docProps/') and not file_path.endswith('.xml'):
             return {}
 
         with open(full_path, encoding='utf-8') as f:
             try:
                 results = re.findall(r"<(.+)>(.+)</\1>", f.read(), re.I|re.M)
-                metadata = {}
-                for (key, value) in results:
-                    metadata[key] = value
-                return metadata
+                return {k:v for (k, v) in results}
             except (TypeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
                 # We didn't manage to parse the xml file
                 return {file_path: 'harmful content', }