Jgarber RedCloth → 4.0.2

I've come across a problem where tables end up with a spurious extra table tag in the HTML generated by RedCloth.

This only seems to occur when you also have some HTML entered in directly as part of the source content that RedCloth is parsing.

The following works as expected...

RedCloth.new("h2. heading\n\n|a|b|c|\n|d|e|f|\n").to_html

It returns...

<h2>heading</h2>
<table>
<tr><td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td></tr>
<tr><td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td></tr>
</table>

But if we add an HTML bold tag at the start we get an extra opening table tag in the resultant HTML.

RedCloth.new("<b></b>\nh2. plop\n\n|a|b|c|\n|d|e|f|\n").to_html

...returns...

<p><b>foo</b></p>
<h2>heading</h2>
<table>
<table>
<tr><td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td></tr>
<tr><td>d</td><td>e</td><td>f</td></tr>
</table>

Notice the two opening table tags.

I've tried this directly in irb running v4.0.1.