--- a/Lib/html/parser.py	Wed Apr 18 12:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py	Wed Apr 18 19:18:22 2012 -0600
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 starttagopen = re.compile('<[a-zA-Z]')
 piclose = re.compile('>')
 commentclose = re.compile(r'--\s*>')
-tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*')
+tagfind = re.compile('([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*)(?:\s|/(?!>))*')
 # see http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#tag-open-state
 # and http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#tag-name-state
 tagfind_tolerant = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][^\t\n\r\f />\x00]*')
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-.:a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
     r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[^\s"\'=<>`]*))?')
 attrfind_tolerant = re.compile(
-    r'[\s/]*((?<=[\'"\s/])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*)(\s*=+\s*'
+    r'((?<=[\'"\s/])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*)(\s*=+\s*'
     r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|(?![\'"])[^>\s]*))?(?:\s|/(?!>))*')
 locatestarttagend = re.compile(r"""
   <[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*          # tag name
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
         match = tagfind.match(rawdata, i+1)
         assert match, 'unexpected call to parse_starttag()'
         k = match.end()
-        self.lasttag = tag = rawdata[i+1:k].lower()
+        self.lasttag = tag = match.group(1).lower()
         while k < endpos:
             if self.strict:
                 m = attrfind.match(rawdata, k)