From d584a95114b3d37e46b1701d60a986212a105ecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 17:57:18 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py
index 06823140a6..c2ec6f9bce 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ class HTMLFile(object):
             raise IgnoreFile(msg, err.errno)
 
         if not src:
-            raise ValueError('The file %s is empty'%self.path)
+            if level == 0:
+                raise ValueError('The file %s is empty'%self.path)
+            self.is_binary = True
 
         if not self.is_binary:
             if not encoding: