From 142c1e84cf94b923c7d0b9afed026c3184ba19f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:13:33 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/docx/char_styles.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/char_styles.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/char_styles.py
index 0c781004d5..655f3c1b42 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/char_styles.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/docx/char_styles.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from calibre.ebooks.docx.names import XPath, get
 def read_text_border(parent, dest):
     border_color = border_style = border_width = padding = inherit
     elems = XPath('./w:bdr')(parent)
-    if elems:
+    if elems and elems[0].attrib:
         border_color = simple_color('auto')
         border_style = 'solid'
         border_width = 1