diff --git a/pkg/scraper/xpath.go b/pkg/scraper/xpath.go
index 8c2670870..b5b99843e 100644
--- a/pkg/scraper/xpath.go
+++ b/pkg/scraper/xpath.go
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ func (c xpathScraperAttrConfig) applySubScraper(value string) string {
 func (c xpathScraperAttrConfig) postProcess(value string) string {
 	// perform regex replacements first
 	value = c.replaceRegex(value)
-	value = c.parseDate(value)
 	value = c.applySubScraper(value)
+	value = c.parseDate(value)
 
 	return value
 }