diff --git a/source/xml.l b/source/xml.l
index 79b4499..3b66ff4 100644
--- a/source/xml.l
+++ b/source/xml.l
@@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ identifier	[A-z][A-z0-9]*
 [^\\](\"|\')	{
 	if (current_string_quote == yytext[1]) {
 		ECHOC(yytext[0]);
+		if (state_buffer == DECLARATION) {
+			ECHOC(yytext[1]);
+		}
 		BEGIN state_buffer;
 	} else {
 		ECHO;
diff --git a/test/complex.csml b/test/complex.csml
index a2cb412..525f47b 100644
--- a/test/complex.csml
+++ b/test/complex.csml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN
-   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd;
+!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
+   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";
 html (lang: en) {
 head {
     meta (charset: UTF-8);