diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
@@ -742,6 +742,13 @@
'\n')
self.assertEqual(serialize(e, method="text"), '1 < 2\n')
+ e = ET.XML('text')
+ self.assertEqual(serialize(e),
+ 'text')
+ self.assertEqual(serialize(e, method="html"),
+ 'text')
+
+
def test_entity(self):
# Test entity handling.
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -992,15 +992,15 @@
# FIXME: handle boolean attributes
write(" %s=\"%s\"" % (qnames[k], v))
write(">")
- tag = tag.lower()
+ ltag = tag.lower()
if text:
- if tag == "script" or tag == "style":
+ if ltag == "script" or ltag == "style":
write(text)
else:
write(_escape_cdata(text))
for e in elem:
_serialize_html(write, e, qnames, None)
- if tag not in HTML_EMPTY:
+ if ltag not in HTML_EMPTY:
write("")
if elem.tail:
write(_escape_cdata(elem.tail))