diff --git a/Tag.cpp b/Tag.cpp
index dcc2100..5bcf22b 100644
--- a/Tag.cpp
+++ b/Tag.cpp
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ namespace jet {
    Tag::Tag(coreutils::ZString &in, coreutils::MString &parentOut, Global &global, Tag *parent, coreutils::ZString splitTagName)
      : ZString(in), parentOut(parentOut), global(global), parent(parent) {
 	this->splitTagName = splitTagName;
-	if(in.ifNext("<")) {
+	if(parent && in.ifNext("<")) {
 	   name = in.getTokenInclude("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_!");
 	   if(in.startsWith(" ") || in.startsWith("/") || in.startsWith(">")) {
 	      bool finished = false;
diff --git a/Tag.h b/Tag.h
index b95bf2e..a35d1c7 100644
--- a/Tag.h
+++ b/Tag.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ namespace jet {
    class Tag : public coreutils::ZString {
 
     public:
-      Tag(coreutils::ZString &in, coreutils::MString &parentOut, Global &global, Tag *parent, coreutils::ZString splitTagName = "");
+      Tag(coreutils::ZString &in, coreutils::MString &parentOut, Global &global, Tag *parent = NULL, coreutils::ZString splitTagName = "");
       virtual ~Tag();
 
       std::map<coreutils::ZString, coreutils::MString> variables;
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ namespace jet {
       bool cleanWhitespace = false;
 
     private:
+      bool containerOnly = false;
       coreutils::ZString splitTagName;
 
       int skipBlankLine(coreutils::ZString in);
diff --git a/tests/testvar.jet b/tests/testvar.jet
index 39d4ecc..93445ab 100755
--- a/tests/testvar.jet
+++ b/tests/testvar.jet
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 #!../jet-2.0
-<jet filterblanklines="true" trimlines="true">
+
+
 <set name="ix" value="1" />
 <set name="letterx" value="x" />
 <set name="var1" value="this is a test" />
 <set name="1var1" value="This is another test" />
 <set name="var1var" value="Yet another test" />
 <set name="var11" value="it seems to work." />
-$[$test]
+
 $[$[ix]var$[ix]]
 $[var$[ix]]
 $[var$[ix]var]
@@ -14,4 +15,4 @@ $[var$[i$[letterx]]var]
 $[letterx;TOHEX]
 $[var$[i$[letterx]]$[ix]]
 $[var$[i$[letterx]]$[i$[letterx]]]
-</jet>
+