diff --git a/readability/readability.py b/readability/readability.py
index 50b04f4..b0323b3 100755
--- a/readability/readability.py
+++ b/readability/readability.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ class Document:
An internal method, which can be overridden in subclasses, for example,
to disable or to improve DOM-to-text conversion in .summary() method
"""
- return clean_attributes(tounicode(self.html))
+ return clean_attributes(tounicode(self.html, method='html'))
def summary(self, html_partial=False):
"""
diff --git a/tests/test_article_only.py b/tests/test_article_only.py
index f6595d9..120aee2 100644
--- a/tests/test_article_only.py
+++ b/tests/test_article_only.py
@@ -106,3 +106,8 @@ class TestArticleOnly(unittest.TestCase):
s = doc.summary()
assert 'foo' in s
+
+ def test_not_self_closing(self):
+ sample = 'foobar
'
+ doc = Document(sample)
+ assert 'foobar
' == doc.summary()