diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/ibl/htmlpage.py b/scrapy/contrib/ibl/htmlpage.py
index 023030bdc..30c21c043 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/ibl/htmlpage.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/ibl/htmlpage.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class HtmlTag(HtmlDataFragment):
         return str(self)
 
 _ATTR = "((?:[^=/>\s]|/(?!>))+)(?:\s*=(?:\s*\"(.*?)\"|\s*'(.*?)'|([^>\s]+))?)?"
-_TAG = "<(\/?)(\w+(?::\w+)?)((?:\s+" + _ATTR + ")+\s*|\s*)(\/?)>"
+_TAG = "<(\/?)(\w+(?::\w+)?)((?:\s+" + _ATTR + ")+\s*|\s*)(\/?)>?"
 _DOCTYPE = r"<!DOCTYPE.*?>"
 _SCRIPT = "(<script.*?>)(.*?)(</script.*?>)"
 _COMMENT = "(<!--.*?-->)"
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py
index f79c9dc78..e9ce86f7e 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ ANNOTATED_PAGE19 = u"""
 <div>
 <p data-scrapy-annotate="{&quot;variant&quot;: 0, &quot;annotations&quot;: {&quot;content&quot;: &quot;name&quot;}}">Product name</p>
 <p data-scrapy-annotate="{&quot;variant&quot;: 0, &quot;annotations&quot;: {&quot;content&quot;: &quot;price&quot;}}">60.00</p>
-<img data-scrapy-annotate="{&quot;variant&quot;: 0, &quot;annotations&quot;: {&quot;src&quot;: &quot;image_urls&quot;}}"src="image.jpg" />
+<img data-scrapy-annotate="{&quot;variant&quot;: 0, &quot;annotations&quot;: {&quot;src&quot;: &quot;image_urls&quot;}}" src="image.jpg" />
 <p data-scrapy-annotate="{&quot;variant&quot;: 0, &quot;required&quot;: [&quot;description&quot;], &quot;annotations&quot;: {&quot;content&quot;: &quot;description&quot;}}">description</p>
 </div>
 </body></html>
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage.py
index cdba56853..b3bc91fa5 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage.py
@@ -137,3 +137,13 @@ class TestParseHtml(TestCase):
         parsed = list(parse_html("<IMG SRC='http://images.play.com/banners/SAM550a.jpg' align='left' / hspace=5>"))
         self.assertEqual(parsed[0].attributes, {'src': 'http://images.play.com/banners/SAM550a.jpg', \
                                                 'align': 'left', 'hspace': '5', '/': None})
+
+    def test_no_ending_body(self):
+        """Test case when no ending body nor html elements are present"""
+        parsed = [_decode_element(d) for d in PARSED7]
+        self._test_sample(PAGE7, parsed)
+
+    def test_malformed(self):
+        """Test parsing of some malformed cases"""
+        parsed = [_decode_element(d) for d in PARSED8]
+        self._test_sample(PAGE8, parsed)
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage_data.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage_data.py
index 62cd6b526..39771a666 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage_data.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_htmlpage_data.py
@@ -246,3 +246,12 @@ PARSED7 = [
     {'end': 99, 'start': 85},
 ]
 
+PAGE8 = u"""<a href="/overview.asp?id=277"><img border="0" src="/img/5200814311.jpg" title=\'Vinyl Cornice\'</a></td><table width=\'5\'>"""
+
+PARSED8 = [
+   {'attributes' : {u'href' : u"/overview.asp?id=277"}, 'end': 31, 'start': 0, 'tag': u'a', 'tag_type': 1},
+   {'attributes' : {u'src' : u"/img/5200814311.jpg", u'border' : u"0", u'title': u'Vinyl Cornice'}, 'end': 94, 'start': 31, 'tag': u'img', 'tag_type': 1},
+   {'attributes' : {}, 'end': 98, 'start': 94, 'tag': u'a', 'tag_type': 2},
+   {'attributes' : {}, 'end': 103, 'start': 98, 'tag': u'td', 'tag_type': 2},
+   {'attributes' : {u'width': u'5'}, 'end': 120, 'start': 103, 'tag': u'table', 'tag_type': 1}
+]