applied the fix from php-textile's issue 164.

Author: ikirudennis

tests/test_values.py

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
     # url with parentheses
     ('"python":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)', '\t<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29">python</a></p>'),
     # table with hyphen styles
-    ('table(linkblog-thumbnail).\n|(linkblog-thumbnail-cell). apple|bear|', '\t<table class="linkblog-thumbnail">\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td class="linkblog-thumbnail-cell" style="vertical-align:middle;">apple</td>\n\t\t\t<td>bear</td>\n\t\t</tr>\n\t</table>'),
+    ('table(linkblog-thumbnail).\n|(linkblog-thumbnail-cell). apple|bear|', '\t<table class="linkblog-thumbnail">\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td class="linkblog-thumbnail-cell">apple</td>\n\t\t\t<td>bear</td>\n\t\t</tr>\n\t</table>'),
     # issue 32 empty table cells
     ("|thing|||otherthing|", "\t<table>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td>thing</td>\n\t\t\t<td></td>\n\t\t\t<td></td>\n\t\t\t<td>otherthing</td>\n\t\t</tr>\n\t</table>"),
     # issue 36 link reference names http and https

textile/utils.py

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ def parse_attributes(block_attributes, element=None, include_id=True):
             rowspan = m.group(1)
 
     if element == 'td' or element == 'tr':
-        m = re.search(r'({0})'.format(valign_re_s), matched)
+        m = re.search(r'(^{0})'.format(valign_re_s), matched)
         if m:
             style.append("vertical-align:{0}".format(vAlign[m.group(1)]))