diff --git a/minidom/src/element.rs b/minidom/src/element.rs
index 0d6ce36..bb54233 100644
--- a/minidom/src/element.rs
+++ b/minidom/src/element.rs
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ pub struct Element {
     namespace: String,
     /// This is only used when deserializing. If you have to use a custom prefix use
     /// `ElementBuilder::prefix`.
-    prefix: Option<Prefix>,
+    pub(crate) prefix: Option<Prefix>,
     prefixes: Prefixes,
     attributes: BTreeMap<String, String>,
     children: Vec<Node>,
@@ -119,13 +119,6 @@ impl PartialEq for Element {
     }
 }
 
-fn ensure_no_prefix<S: AsRef<str>>(s: &S) -> Result<()> {
-    match s.as_ref().split(':').count() {
-        1 => Ok(()),
-        _ => Err(Error::InvalidElement),
-    }
-}
-
 impl Element {
     pub(crate) fn new<P: Into<Prefixes>>(
         name: String,
@@ -135,8 +128,6 @@ impl Element {
         attributes: BTreeMap<String, String>,
         children: Vec<Node>,
     ) -> Element {
-        ensure_no_prefix(&name).unwrap();
-        // TODO: Return Result<Element> instead.
         Element {
             name,
             namespace,
@@ -323,7 +314,7 @@ impl Element {
             }
             tokenizer.push(&buf[0..len]);
             while let Some(token) = tokenizer.pull()? {
-                tree_builder.process_token(token);
+                tree_builder.process_token(token)?;
 
                 if let Some(root) = tree_builder.root.take() {
                     return Ok(root);
diff --git a/minidom/src/error.rs b/minidom/src/error.rs
index 05158de..fb1496a 100644
--- a/minidom/src/error.rs
+++ b/minidom/src/error.rs
@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@ pub enum Error {
     /// An error which is returned when an element is closed when it shouldn't be
     InvalidElementClosed,
 
-    /// An error which is returned when an elemet's name contains more colons than permitted
-    InvalidElement,
-
     /// An error which is returned when an element being serialized doesn't contain a prefix
     /// (be it None or Some(_)).
     InvalidPrefix,
@@ -45,9 +42,6 @@ pub enum Error {
     /// An error which is returned when an element doesn't contain a namespace
     MissingNamespace,
 
-    /// An error which is returned when a comment is to be parsed by minidom
-    NoComments,
-
     /// An error which is returned when a prefixed is defined twice
     DuplicatePrefix,
 }
@@ -61,10 +55,8 @@ impl StdError for Error {
             Error::IoError(e) => Some(e),
             Error::EndOfDocument => None,
             Error::InvalidElementClosed => None,
-            Error::InvalidElement => None,
             Error::InvalidPrefix => None,
             Error::MissingNamespace => None,
-            Error::NoComments => None,
             Error::DuplicatePrefix => None,
         }
     }
@@ -83,13 +75,8 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
             Error::InvalidElementClosed => {
                 write!(fmt, "the XML is invalid, an element was wrongly closed")
             }
-            Error::InvalidElement => write!(fmt, "the XML element is invalid"),
             Error::InvalidPrefix => write!(fmt, "the prefix is invalid"),
             Error::MissingNamespace => write!(fmt, "the XML element is missing a namespace",),
-            Error::NoComments => write!(
-                fmt,
-                "a comment has been found even though comments are forbidden"
-            ),
             Error::DuplicatePrefix => write!(fmt, "the prefix is already defined"),
         }
     }
diff --git a/minidom/src/tests.rs b/minidom/src/tests.rs
index ce43ecb..c76529c 100644
--- a/minidom/src/tests.rs
+++ b/minidom/src/tests.rs
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ fn namespace_inherited_prefixed2() {
 fn fail_comments() {
     let elem: Result<Element, Error> = "<foo xmlns='ns1'><!-- bar --></foo>".parse();
     match elem {
-        Err(Error::NoComments) => (),
+        Err(_) => (),
         _ => panic!(),
     };
 }
@@ -432,20 +432,12 @@ fn fail_comments() {
 #[test]
 fn xml_error() {
     match "<a xmlns='ns1'></b>".parse::<Element>() {
-        Err(crate::error::Error::XmlError(_)) => (),
+        Err(crate::error::Error::InvalidElementClosed) => (),
         err => panic!("No or wrong error: {:?}", err),
     }
 
     match "<a xmlns='ns1'></".parse::<Element>() {
-        Err(crate::error::Error::XmlError(_)) => (),
-        err => panic!("No or wrong error: {:?}", err),
-    }
-}
-
-#[test]
-fn invalid_element_error() {
-    match "<a:b:c>".parse::<Element>() {
-        Err(crate::error::Error::InvalidElement) => (),
+        Err(crate::error::Error::EndOfDocument) => (),
         err => panic!("No or wrong error: {:?}", err),
     }
 }
diff --git a/minidom/src/token.rs b/minidom/src/token.rs
index 462724c..2f79e6a 100644
--- a/minidom/src/token.rs
+++ b/minidom/src/token.rs
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ impl Token {
         alt((
             Self::parse_tag,
             |s| {
+                let (s, _) = not(peek(char('<')))(s)?;
                 let (s, text) = Self::parse_text('<', s)?;
                 Ok((s, Token::Text(text)))
             },
diff --git a/minidom/src/tokenizer.rs b/minidom/src/tokenizer.rs
index cf67f89..d787484 100644
--- a/minidom/src/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/minidom/src/tokenizer.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2022 Astro <astro@spaceboyz.net>
+
 //! Streaming tokenizer (SAX parser)
 
 use bytes::BytesMut;
diff --git a/minidom/src/tree_builder.rs b/minidom/src/tree_builder.rs
index 7787d92..406a600 100644
--- a/minidom/src/tree_builder.rs
+++ b/minidom/src/tree_builder.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2022 Astro <astro@spaceboyz.net>
+
 //! SAX events to DOM tree conversion
 
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
-use crate::Element;
+use crate::{Element, Error};
 use crate::prefixes::Prefixes;
 use crate::token::{Attribute, LocalName, Token};
 
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ impl TreeBuilder {
         None
     }
 
-    fn process_start_tag(&mut self, name: LocalName, attrs: Vec<Attribute>) {
+    fn process_start_tag(&mut self, name: LocalName, attrs: Vec<Attribute>) -> Result<(), Error> {
         let mut prefixes = Prefixes::default();
         let mut attributes = BTreeMap::new();
         for attr in attrs.into_iter() {
@@ -68,19 +70,28 @@ impl TreeBuilder {
         }
         self.prefixes_stack.push(prefixes.clone());
 
+        let namespace = self.lookup_prefix(&name.prefix)
+            .ok_or(Error::MissingNamespace)?
+            .to_owned();
         let el = Element::new(
             name.name,
-            self.lookup_prefix(&name.prefix).unwrap_or("").to_owned(),
+            namespace,
             Some(name.prefix),
             prefixes,
             attributes,
             vec![]
         );
         self.stack.push(el);
+
+        Ok(())
     }
 
-    fn process_end_tag(&mut self) {
+    fn process_end_tag(&mut self, name: LocalName) -> Result<(), Error> {
         if let Some(el) = self.pop() {
+            if el.name() != name.name || el.prefix != Some(name.prefix) {
+                return Err(Error::InvalidElementClosed);
+            }
+
             if self.depth() > 0 {
                 let top = self.stack.len() - 1;
                 self.stack[top].append_child(el);
@@ -88,6 +99,8 @@ impl TreeBuilder {
                 self.root = Some(el);
             }
         }
+
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     fn process_text(&mut self, text: String) {
@@ -98,7 +111,7 @@ impl TreeBuilder {
     }
 
     /// Process a Token that you got out of a Tokenizer
-    pub fn process_token(&mut self, token: Token) {
+    pub fn process_token(&mut self, token: Token) -> Result<(), Error> {
         match token {
             Token::XmlDecl { .. } => {},
 
@@ -106,22 +119,24 @@ impl TreeBuilder {
                 name,
                 attrs,
                 self_closing: false,
-            } => self.process_start_tag(name, attrs),
+            } => self.process_start_tag(name, attrs)?,
 
             Token::StartTag {
                 name,
                 attrs,
                 self_closing: true,
             } => {
-                self.process_start_tag(name, attrs);
-                self.process_end_tag();
+                self.process_start_tag(name.clone(), attrs)?;
+                self.process_end_tag(name)?;
             }
 
-            Token::EndTag { .. } =>
-                self.process_end_tag(),
+            Token::EndTag { name } =>
+                self.process_end_tag(name)?,
 
             Token::Text(text) =>
                 self.process_text(text),
         }
+
+        Ok(())
     }
 }