Index: test/test_parser.rb
===================================================================
--- test/test_parser.rb (revision 155)
+++ test/test_parser.rb (working copy)
@@ -299,10 +299,10 @@
     assert_equal "blah='blah'", doc.children[2].content
   end

-  def test_buffer_error
-    assert_raise Hpricot::ParseError, "ran out of buffer space on element , starting on line 3." do
-      Hpricot(%{
\n\n\n\n
})
-    end
+  def test_no_buffer_error
+    viewstate = (("X" * 2000) + "\n") * 100
+    doc = Hpricot(%{
\n\n\n\n
})
+    assert_equal viewstate, (doc/:input)[0].get_attribute('value')
   end

   def test_youtube_attr
Index: ext/hpricot_scan/hpricot_scan.rl
===================================================================
--- ext/hpricot_scan/hpricot_scan.rl (revision 155)
+++ ext/hpricot_scan/hpricot_scan.rl (working copy)
@@ -162,16 +162,30 @@

   while ( !done ) {
     VALUE str;
-    char *p = buf + have, *pe;
-    int len, space = buffer_size - have;
+    char *p, *pe;
+    int len, space = buffer_size - have, tokstart_diff, tokend_diff, mark_tag_diff, mark_akey_diff, mark_aval_diff;

     if ( space == 0 ) {
-      /* We've used up the entire buffer storing an already-parsed token
-       * prefix that must be preserved.  Likely caused by super-long attributes.
-       * See ticket #13. */
-      rb_raise(rb_eHpricotParseError, "ran out of buffer space on element <%s>, starting on line %d.", RSTRING(tag)->ptr, curline);
+      tokstart_diff = tokstart - buf;
+      tokend_diff = tokend - buf;
+      mark_tag_diff = mark_tag - buf;
+      mark_akey_diff = mark_akey - buf;
+      mark_aval_diff = mark_aval - buf;
+
+      buffer_size += BUFSIZE;
+      buf = REALLOC_N(buf, char, buffer_size);
+
+      space = buffer_size - have;
+
+      tokstart = buf + tokstart_diff;
+      tokend = buf + tokend_diff;
+      mark_tag = buf + mark_tag_diff;
+      mark_akey = buf + mark_akey_diff;
+      mark_aval = buf + mark_aval_diff;
     }

+    p = buf + have;
+
     if ( rb_respond_to( port, s_read ) )
     {
       str = rb_funcall( port, s_read, 1, INT2FIX(space) );