diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyDiagram.ts b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyDiagram.ts
index 9c8fbaa2d..4fce38f97 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyDiagram.ts
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyDiagram.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ import parser from './parser/sankey.jison';
 import db from './sankeyDB.js';
 import styles from './styles.js';
 import renderer from './sankeyRenderer.js';
+import { prepareTextForParsing } from './sankeyUtils.js';
+
+const originalParse = parser.parse.bind(parser);
+parser.parse = (text: string) => originalParse(prepareTextForParsing(text));
 
 export const diagram: DiagramDefinition = {
   parser,
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyRenderer.ts b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyRenderer.ts
index b034e8c24..4bb5bbd15 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyRenderer.ts
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/sankey/sankeyRenderer.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import {
   sankeyJustify as d3SankeyJustify,
 } from 'd3-sankey';
 import { configureSvgSize } from '../../setupGraphViewbox.js';
-import { prepareTextForParsing } from './sankeyUtils.js';
 
 /**
  * Draws a sequenceDiagram in the tag with id: id based on the graph definition in text.
@@ -28,14 +27,6 @@ import { prepareTextForParsing } from './sankeyUtils.js';
  * @param diagObj - A standard diagram containing the db and the text and type etc of the diagram
  */
 export const draw = function (text: string, id: string, _version: string, diagObj: Diagram): void {
-  // Clear DB before parsing
-  //
-  diagObj.db.clear?.();
-  
-  // Launch parsing
-  const preparedText = prepareTextForParsing(text);
-  diagObj.parser.parse(preparedText);
-
   // TODO: Figure out what is happening there
   // The main thing is svg object that is a d3 wrapper for svg operations
   //