Newly created tags use the same empty-element rules as the builder used to originally create the soup.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/bs4/builder/__init__.py b/bs4/builder/__init__.py
index e6d4fa1..a17dce6 100644
--- a/bs4/builder/__init__.py
+++ b/bs4/builder/__init__.py
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ class TreeBuilderRegistry(object):
 # to look up builders in this registry.
 builder_registry = TreeBuilderRegistry()
 
-
 class TreeBuilder(object):
     """Turn a document into a Beautiful Soup object tree."""
 
@@ -244,20 +243,20 @@ def register_treebuilders_from(module):
             this_module.builder_registry.register(obj)
 
 # Builders are registered in reverse order of priority, so that custom
-# builder registrations will take precedence. In general, we want
-# html5lib to take precedence over lxml, because it's more
-# reliable. And we only want to use HTMLParser as a last result.
+# builder registrations will take precedence. In general, we want lxml
+# to take precedence over html5lib, because it's faster. And we only
+# want to use HTMLParser as a last result.
 from .import _htmlparser
 register_treebuilders_from(_htmlparser)
 try:
-    from . import _lxml
-    register_treebuilders_from(_lxml)
-except ImportError:
-    # They don't have lxml installed.
-    pass
-try:
     from . import _html5lib
     register_treebuilders_from(_html5lib)
 except ImportError:
     # They don't have html5lib installed.
     pass
+try:
+    from . import _lxml
+    register_treebuilders_from(_lxml)
+except ImportError:
+    # They don't have lxml installed.
+    pass