[FIX] tools: lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError if html is empty

Don't try to parse html as xml if html is empty
2015-08-27 18:13:11 +02:00
parent 46de6789c6
commit 436daf0c4f
1 changed files with 4 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -475,6 +475,10 @@ def html2plaintext(html, body_id=None, encoding='utf-8'):
    ## download here: http://www.peterbe.com/plog/html2plaintext

    html = ustr(html)
+
+    if not html:
+        return ''
+
    tree = etree.fromstring(html, parser=etree.HTMLParser())

    if body_id is not None: