From f5c9ad8661023d874b49327a325f58efae86fd96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 20:24:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] MOBI Output: Fix regression that breaks conversion of some
 documents

Fixes #1188635 [Mobi conversion crashed](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1188635)
---
 src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py
index 0bb66ec843..26edeab24c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/mobiml.py
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ class MobiMLizer(object):
         if elem.text:
             if istate.preserve:
                 text = elem.text
-            elif (len(elem) > 0 and isspace(elem.text) and elem[0].tag and
+            elif (len(elem) > 0 and isspace(elem.text) and hasattr(elem[0].tag, 'rpartition') and
                   elem[0].tag.rpartition('}')[-1] not in INLINE_TAGS):
                 text = None
             else: