From 4b9629b61fc2954ca9d530cb6276899a7d4e4eb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:34:31 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add a test for tostring on sub-trees

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/tests/parsing.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/tests/parsing.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/tests/parsing.py
index 9f5df26063..d7443ef739 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/tests/parsing.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/tests/parsing.py
@@ -167,6 +167,13 @@ basic_checks = (nonvoid_cdata_elements, namespaces, space_characters,
 
 class ParsingTests(BaseTest):
 
+    def test_lxml_tostring(self):
+        ' Test for bug in some versions of lxml that causes incorrect serialization of sub-trees'
+        from html5_parser import parse
+        root = parse('<p>a<p>b<p>c')
+        p = root.xpath('//p')[0]
+        self.assertEqual(etree.tostring(p, encoding=str), '<p>a</p>')
+
     def test_conversion_parser(self):
         ' Test parsing with the HTML5 parser used for conversion '
         for test in basic_checks: