From 1a01daab1b4a61e903cf6ddee272603d039f499f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:29:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] OEBBook: remove invalid links.

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
index 8941f97304..23b01da1a2 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
@@ -904,6 +904,12 @@ class Manifest(object):
                 if key == 'lang' or key.endswith('}lang'):
                     body.attrib.pop(key)
 
+            # Remove invalid links as they casue overflow until the next link
+            # in rendering.
+            data = etree.tostring(data)
+            data = re.sub('<a[^/]*?/>', '', data)
+            data = etree.fromstring(data)
+
             return data
 
         def _parse_txt(self, data):