diff --git a/doc/sample.html b/doc/sample.html
index 5bf3d11..3907213 100644
--- a/doc/sample.html
+++ b/doc/sample.html
@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@
   </ol>
   <h1>Acknowledgements</h1>
   <p>
-    Surely, we could not have done this huge amount of work all by ourselves.<br />
-    Therefore, we cannot thank enough the following persons for their kind contributions:
+    Surely,<br>
+    we could not have done this huge amount of work all by ourselves.<br/>
+    Therefore,<br >
+    we cannot thank enough the following persons<br />
+    for their kind contributions:
     <!--
       Of course, the text in this paragraph only serve presentation purposes, i.e. it's not actually part of the machine-consumable structured data that this API is serving.
     -->
diff --git a/src/htmlparser.lua b/src/htmlparser.lua
index 00158a4..209332c 100644
--- a/src/htmlparser.lua
+++ b/src/htmlparser.lua
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ local function parse(text)
         "(=?)" ..      -- eq = the optional; "=", else ""
         "(['\"]?)",    -- quote = an optional "'" or '"' following the "=", or ""
       apos)
-      if not k or k == "/>" then break end
+      if not k or k == "/>" or k == ">" then break end
       if eq == "" then
         v = ""
       else