From 3fe8646ec68650d42e25fcb9ef7513efe22b0fa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:27:02 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Handle tags inside NCX description element more gracefully

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
index 6b246d0580..35b211bb7d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
@@ -343,8 +343,9 @@ class OEBReader(object):
 
             descriptionElement = xpath(child,
                     'descendant::calibre:meta[@name = "description"]')
-            if descriptionElement :
-                description = descriptionElement[0].text
+            if descriptionElement:
+                description = etree.tostring(descriptionElement[0],
+                method='text', encoding=unicode).strip()
             else :
                 description = None