HTML tags produce undefined behavior on the TWiki parser

I'm using the TWiki parser in conjunction with a sink to format some twiki text. When putting some html tags in the code, the parser produces invalid output. I found this bug while working with a home-brewed sink, but later I tried with other sinks and it was also the case, which pointed out that the fault is actually in the parser. Actually the test case I'm attaching is using a XhtmlBaseSink sink.

The fault seems to be in org.apache.maven.doxia.module.twiki.parser.TextParser. I see one of two possibilities (but I don't have the time to produce a patch, and I prefer just to explain my findings):

• Fix the HTML_TAG_PATTERN pattern, since it is detecting, in the example, the whole " and a bit of <font color=\"red\">red</font>" string, instead of just "<font color=\"red\">red</font>"

• If that's not possible, then the pattern compiled in line 117/118 should be changed to take into account the content before the HTML tag, so it would be "(.)?(
  <" + tag + ".\\>)(.)?(\\<
  /" + tag + "
  >)(.*)?" (the difference is the initial "(.)?"). The logic with the group numbers should be changed too

• Other solution is to take into account the restul of xhtmlMatcher.start(1) in TextParser#parseXHTML:331, so it realizes that there is normal text before the actual tag.

Please point out if this is really a bug in the TWiki parser, or if I'm simply doing something wrong. I couldn't find any reference in the mailing lists or whatsoever, and I'm inclined to see this as a bug; therefore, I'm opening this ticket.

Cheers