olaf@pc:~/test/python2.4-2.4.3/Lib$ diff -u /usr/lib/python2.4/sgmllib_SAVE.py  /usr/lib/python2.4/sgmllib.py
--- /usr/lib/python2.4/sgmllib_SAVE.py  2006-07-09 00:31:58.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/python2.4/sgmllib.py       2006-07-09 00:30:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -29,16 +29,11 @@
 shorttagopen = re.compile('<[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*/')
 shorttag = re.compile('<([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*)/([^/]*)/')
 piclose = re.compile('>')
-starttag = re.compile(r'<[a-zA-Z][-_.:a-zA-Z0-9]*\s*('
-        r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-:.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
-        r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./,:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~@]'
-        r'[][\-a-zA-Z0-9./,:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~\'"@]*(?=[\s>/<])))?'
-    r')*\s*/?\s*(?=[<>])')
-endtag = re.compile(r'</?[a-zA-Z][-_.:a-zA-Z0-9]*\s*/?\s*(?=[<>])')
+endbracket = re.compile('[<>]')
 tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-_.a-zA-Z0-9]*')
 attrfind = re.compile(
     r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-:.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
-    r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[][\-a-zA-Z0-9./,:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~\'"@]*))?')
+    r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./,:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~\'"@]*))?')


 class SGMLParseError(RuntimeError):
@@ -250,10 +245,11 @@
             self.finish_shorttag(tag, data)
             self.__starttag_text = rawdata[start_pos:match.end(1) + 1]
             return k
-        match = starttag.match(rawdata, i)
+        # XXX The following should skip matching quotes (' or ")
+        match = endbracket.search(rawdata, i+1)
         if not match:
             return -1
-        j = match.end(0)
+        j = match.start(0)
         # Now parse the data between i+1 and j into a tag and attrs
         attrs = []
         if rawdata[i:i+2] == '<>':
@@ -287,10 +283,10 @@
     # Internal -- parse endtag
     def parse_endtag(self, i):
         rawdata = self.rawdata
-        match = endtag.match(rawdata, i)
+        match = endbracket.search(rawdata, i+1)
         if not match:
             return -1
-        j = match.end(0)
+        j = match.start(0)
         tag = rawdata[i+2:j].strip().lower()
         if rawdata[j] == '>':
             j = j+1