diff --git a/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php b/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
index 279d589..5b23f74 100644
--- a/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
+++ b/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ protected function parse_selector($selector_string) {
 // This implies that an html attribute specifier may start with an @ sign that is NOT captured by the expression.
 // farther study is required to determine of this should be documented or removed.
 //        $pattern = "/([\w-:\*]*)(?:\#([\w-]+)|\.([\w-]+))?(?:\[@?(!?[\w-]+)(?:([!*^$]?=)[\"']?(.*?)[\"']?)?\])?([\/, ]+)/is";
-        $pattern = "/([\w-:\*]*)(?:\#([\w-]+)|\.([\w-]+))?(?:\[@?(!?[\w-:]+)(?:([!*^$]?=)[\"']?(.*?)[\"']?)?\])?([\/, ]+)/is";
+        $pattern = "/([-:\*\w]*)(?:\#([-\w]+)|\.([-\w]+))?(?:\[@?(!?[-\w:]+)(?:([!*^$]?=)[\"']?(.*?)[\"']?)?\])?([\/, ]+
         preg_match_all($pattern, trim($selector_string).' ', $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
         if (is_object($debugObject)) {$debugObject->debugLog(2, "Matches Array: ", $matches);}
 
@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ protected function read_tag()
             return true;
         }
 
-        if (!preg_match("/^[\w-:]+$/", $tag)) {
+        if (!preg_match("/^[-:\w]+$/", $tag)) {
             $node->_[HDOM_INFO_TEXT] = '<' . $tag . $this->copy_until('<>');
             if ($this->char==='<') {
                 $this->link_nodes($node, false);