From 3b4aa6bff7bde3ac72ec5e3d9e5a4a260bf1d693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emanuil Rusev <hello@erusev.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 01:46:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] change the parsing order of tag elements to improve
 performance

---
 Parsedown.php | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Parsedown.php b/Parsedown.php
index eb1f88c..46d0715 100755
--- a/Parsedown.php
+++ b/Parsedown.php
@@ -1217,14 +1217,6 @@ class Parsedown
             return;
         }
 
-        if (preg_match('/^<\w*(?:[ ]*'.$this->regexHtmlAttribute.')*[ ]*\/?>/s', $excerpt, $matches))
-        {
-            return array(
-                'markup' => $matches[0],
-                'extent' => strlen($matches[0]),
-            );
-        }
-
         if ($excerpt[1] === '/' and preg_match('/^<\/\w*[ ]*>/s', $excerpt, $matches))
         {
             return array(
@@ -1240,6 +1232,14 @@ class Parsedown
                 'extent' => strlen($matches[0]),
             );
         }
+
+        if (preg_match('/^<\w*(?:[ ]*'.$this->regexHtmlAttribute.')*[ ]*\/?>/s', $excerpt, $matches))
+        {
+            return array(
+                'markup' => $matches[0],
+                'extent' => strlen($matches[0]),
+            );
+        }
     }
 
     protected function inlineCode($excerpt)