From 52e45253c848423cd76d2e1a26b42011139f0219 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:32:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1874 (calibre generated invalid epub)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/html.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py
index f69f26a1e6..43c98c1b45 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/html.py
@@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ class PreProcessor(object):
                   (re.compile(r'&(\S+?);'), convert_entities),
                   # Remove the <![if/endif tags inserted by everybody's darling, MS Word
                   (re.compile(r'(?i)<{0,1}!\[(end){0,1}if[^>]*>'), lambda match: ''),
+                  # Replace ---> with --> since Adobe DE cries when it sees one
+                  (re.compile(r'-{3,}>'), lambda match : '-->'),
                   ]
                      
     # Fix pdftohtml markup