diff --git a/packages/happy-dom/src/xml-parser/XMLParser.ts b/packages/happy-dom/src/xml-parser/XMLParser.ts
index a0bdf7142..9b0541f47 100755
--- a/packages/happy-dom/src/xml-parser/XMLParser.ts
+++ b/packages/happy-dom/src/xml-parser/XMLParser.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import INode from '../nodes/node/INode';
import IElement from '../nodes/element/IElement';
import HTMLLinkElement from '../nodes/html-link-element/HTMLLinkElement';
-const MARKUP_REGEXP = /<(\/?)([a-z][-.0-9_a-z]*)\s*([^>]*?)(\/?)>/gi;
+const MARKUP_REGEXP = /<(\/?)([a-z][-.0-9_a-z]*)\s*([^<>]*?)(\/?)>/gi;
const COMMENT_REGEXP = /|<([!?])([^>]*)>/gi;
const DOCUMENT_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_REGEXP = /"([^"]+)"/gm;
const ATTRIBUTE_REGEXP = /([^\s=]+)(?:\s*=\s*(?:"([^"]*)"|'([^']*)'|(\S+)))/gms;
diff --git a/packages/happy-dom/test/xml-parser/XMLParser.test.ts b/packages/happy-dom/test/xml-parser/XMLParser.test.ts
index 85164e4b8..e55ff23de 100644
--- a/packages/happy-dom/test/xml-parser/XMLParser.test.ts
+++ b/packages/happy-dom/test/xml-parser/XMLParser.test.ts
@@ -185,6 +185,21 @@ describe('XMLParser', () => {
`.replace(/[\s]/gm, '')
);
+
+ const root2 = XMLParser.parse(
+ window.document,
+ `
+
+ Title
+
+
+
+
+`
+ );
+ expect((root2.children[0].children[1].children[0]).innerText).toBe(
+ 'var vars = []; for (var i=0;i {