diff --git a/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/io/RegexResourceProcessor.java b/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/io/RegexResourceProcessor.java
index e3882de6fe..4bed4974fe 100644
--- a/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/io/RegexResourceProcessor.java
+++ b/scm-core/src/main/java/sonia/scm/io/RegexResourceProcessor.java
@@ -127,8 +127,12 @@ public class RegexResourceProcessor extends AbstractResourceProcessor
       }
     }
 
-    return (result != null)
-           ? result.toString()
-           : line;
+    if (result != null)
+    {
+      m.appendTail(result);
+      line = result.toString();
+    }
+
+    return line;
   }
 }
diff --git a/scm-core/src/test/java/sonia/scm/io/ResourceProcessorTestBase.java b/scm-core/src/test/java/sonia/scm/io/ResourceProcessorTestBase.java
index 340708800a..ba139a5cff 100644
--- a/scm-core/src/test/java/sonia/scm/io/ResourceProcessorTestBase.java
+++ b/scm-core/src/test/java/sonia/scm/io/ResourceProcessorTestBase.java
@@ -53,13 +53,16 @@ public abstract class ResourceProcessorTestBase
 {
 
   /** Field description */
-  public static final String TEXT_1 = "Hello Tricia McMillan";
+  public static final String TEXT_1 = "Hello Tricia McMillan!";
 
   /** Field description */
-  public static final String TEXT_2 = "Hello ${person}";
+  public static final String TEXT_2 = "Hello ${person}!";
 
   /** Field description */
-  public static final String TEXT_3 = "Hello ${person} and ${secondPerson}";
+  public static final String TEXT_3 = "Hello ${person} and ${secondPerson}!";
+
+  /** Field description */
+  public static final String TEXT_4 = "<h1>Hello ${person}</h1>";
 
   /** Field description */
   public static final String VAR_PERSON = "person";
@@ -83,6 +86,25 @@ public abstract class ResourceProcessorTestBase
    */
   protected abstract ResourceProcessor createNewResourceProcessor();
 
+  /**
+   * Method description
+   *
+   *
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testHtml() throws IOException
+  {
+    ResourceProcessor processor = createNewResourceProcessor();
+
+    processor.addVariable(VAR_PERSON, VAR_PERSON_VALUE);
+
+    StringWriter output = new StringWriter();
+
+    processor.process(new StringReader(TEXT_4), output);
+    assertEquals("<h1>Hello Tricia McMillan</h1>", output.toString());
+  }
+
   /**
    * Method description
    *
@@ -135,7 +157,7 @@ public abstract class ResourceProcessorTestBase
     StringWriter output = new StringWriter();
 
     processor.process(new StringReader(TEXT_3), output);
-    assertEquals("Hello Tricia McMillan and Zaphod Beeblebrox",
+    assertEquals("Hello Tricia McMillan and Zaphod Beeblebrox!",
                  output.toString());
   }