diff --git a/bits/22_xmlutils.js b/bits/22_xmlutils.js
index dc1880e23186ce41d96f4112b963b7cd8adc35a5..2e7c6d87e3557300c4a6d11e7aadfa5912060053 100644
--- a/bits/22_xmlutils.js
+++ b/bits/22_xmlutils.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 var XML_HEADER = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>\r\n';
 var attregexg=/([^"\s?>\/]+)\s*=\s*((?:")([^"]*)(?:")|(?:')([^']*)(?:')|([^'">\s]+))/g;
-var tagregex=/<[\/\?]?[a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+(?:\s+[^"\s?>\/]+\s*=\s*(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^'">\s=]+))*\s?[\/\?]?>/g;
+var tagregex=/<[\/\?]?[a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+(?:\s+[^"\s?>\/]+\s*=\s*(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^'">\s=]+))*\s?[\/\?]?>/mg;
 
 if(!(XML_HEADER.match(tagregex))) tagregex = /<[^>]*>/g;
 var nsregex=/<\w*:/, nsregex2 = /<(\/?)\w+:/;