diff --git a/planet/reconstitute.py b/planet/reconstitute.py
index 3ab9cd8..c5123da 100644
--- a/planet/reconstitute.py
+++ b/planet/reconstitute.py
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ def date(xentry, name, parsed):
 
 def category(xentry, tag):
     xtag = xentry.ownerDocument.createElement('category')
-    if tag.has_key('term') and tag.term:
-        xtag.setAttribute('term', tag.get('term'))
+    if not tag.has_key('term') or not tag.term: return
+    xtag.setAttribute('term', tag.get('term'))
     if tag.has_key('scheme') and tag.scheme:
         xtag.setAttribute('scheme', tag.get('scheme'))
     if tag.has_key('label') and tag.label:
diff --git a/tests/data/reconstitute/category_blank_term.xml b/tests/data/reconstitute/category_blank_term.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..564a740
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/reconstitute/category_blank_term.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<!--
+Description:  category term
+Expect:       not globals().has_key('tags')
+-->
+
+<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <entry>
+    <category term=""/>
+  </entry>
+</feed>
+
diff --git a/tests/data/reconstitute/category_label.xml b/tests/data/reconstitute/category_label.xml
index fc38fc7..4501d28 100644
--- a/tests/data/reconstitute/category_label.xml
+++ b/tests/data/reconstitute/category_label.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Expect:       tags[0].label == 'Inbox'
 
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   <entry>
-    <category label="Inbox"/>
+    <category term='x' label="Inbox"/>
   </entry>
 </feed>
 
diff --git a/tests/data/reconstitute/category_scheme.xml b/tests/data/reconstitute/category_scheme.xml
index b1cbbb4..81f3c93 100644
--- a/tests/data/reconstitute/category_scheme.xml
+++ b/tests/data/reconstitute/category_scheme.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Expect:       tags[0].scheme == 'http://example.com/categories'
 
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   <entry>
-    <category scheme="http://example.com/categories"/>
+    <category term='x' scheme="http://example.com/categories"/>
   </entry>
 </feed>
 
diff --git a/tests/reconstitute.py b/tests/reconstitute.py
index 4af8e77..dd57b92 100644
--- a/tests/reconstitute.py
+++ b/tests/reconstitute.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     from planet import spider
     spider.spiderPlanet(only_if_new=False)
 
-    from planet import feedparser
+    import feedparser
     for source in glob.glob(os.path.join(work, 'sources/*')):
         feed = feedparser.parse(source).feed
         if feed.has_key('title'):