diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8c6166b..d5a0780 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# v1.1.3
+## 02/10/2015
+
+3. [](#bugfix)
+  * Fixed self-closing tags in HTML5 and ensured to return contents compliant to HTML(5)
+
 # v1.1.2
 ## 02/10/2015
 
diff --git a/blueprints.yaml b/blueprints.yaml
index 3140c73..d8e3049 100644
--- a/blueprints.yaml
+++ b/blueprints.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: External Links
-version: 1.1.2
+version: 1.1.3
 description: "This plugin adds small icons to external and mailto links, informing users the link will take them to a new site or open their email client."
 icon: external-link
 author:
diff --git a/external_links.php b/external_links.php
index 887010d..8b26bcf 100644
--- a/external_links.php
+++ b/external_links.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 /**
- * External Links v1.1.2
+ * External Links v1.1.3
  *
  * This plugin adds small icons to external and mailto links, informing
  * users the link will take them to a new site or open their email client.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * Licensed under MIT, see LICENSE.
  *
  * @package     External Links
- * @version     1.1.2
+ * @version     1.1.3
  * @link        <https://github.com/sommerregen/grav-plugin-archive-plus>
  * @author      Benjamin Regler <sommergen@benjamin-regler.de>
  * @copyright   2015, Benjamin Regler
@@ -87,6 +87,19 @@ public function onPageContentProcessed(Event $event) {
     if ( $config->get('process', TRUE) ) {
       $content = $page->getRawContent();
 
+      /**
+       * Two Really good resources to handle DOMDocument with HTML(5)
+       * correctly.
+       *
+       * @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php
+       * @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7997936/how-do-you-format-dom-structures-in-php
+       */
+
+      // Clear previous errors
+      if ( libxml_use_internal_errors(TRUE) === TRUE ) {
+        libxml_clear_errors();
+      }
+
       // Create a DOM parser object
       $dom = new \DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
 
@@ -94,6 +107,9 @@ public function onPageContentProcessed(Event $event) {
       $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = FALSE;
       $dom->formatOutput       = TRUE;
 
+      // Normalize newlines
+      $content = preg_replace('~\R~u', "\n", $content);
+
       // Parse the HTML using UTF-8
       // The @ before the method call suppresses any warnings that
       // loadHTML might throw because of invalid HTML in the page.
@@ -183,15 +199,28 @@ public function onPageContentProcessed(Event $event) {
       }
 
       $content = '';
-      // Process HTML from DOM document
+      // Transform DOM document to valid HTML(5)
       $body = $dom->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0);
       foreach ( $body->childNodes as $node ) {
-        $content .= $dom->saveXML($node);
+        // Expand empty tags (e.g. <br/> to <br></br>)
+        if ( ($html = $dom->saveXML($node, LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG)) !== FALSE ) {
+          $content .= $html;
+        }
       }
 
-      // Fix formatting for self-closing tags in HTML5
-      $content = preg_replace('~<(area|base(?:font)?|br|col|command|embed|frame|hr|img|input|keygen|link|meta|param|source|track|wbr)(.*?)\s*/>~i', '<$1$2 />', $content);
+      // Fix formatting for self-closing tags in HTML5 and removing
+      // encapsulated (uncommented) CDATA blocks in <script> and
+      // <style> tags
+      $regex = array(
+        '~' . preg_quote('<![CDATA[', '~') . '~' => '',
+        '~' . preg_quote(']]>', '~') . '~' => '',
+        '~></(?:area|base(?:font)?|br|col|command|embed|frame|hr|img|input|keygen|link|meta|param|source|track|wbr)>~' => ' />',
+      );
+
+      // Make XML HTML5 compliant
+      $content = preg_replace(array_keys($regex), $regex, $content);
 
+      // Write content back to page
       $page->setRawcontent($content);
     }
   }