02-10-2011, 12:20 AM | #1 | |
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Fetch News failing (All strings must be XML compatible
Hi all,
I've been using Calibre to download the RSS feeds from several blogs onto my Kindle into three different groups: Economics, Sociology, and Politics. Today my Economics feed stopped working, while the other two still work. It keeps saying "Python function terminated unexpectedly All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes (Error Code: 1)." I've searched for these terms and the answers on other threads seem to deal with non-English characters in usernames--this seems unrelated to my issue here. Here is the end of the text: Quote:
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02-10-2011, 11:06 AM | #2 |
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You need to post your recipe if you want help.
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02-10-2011, 02:30 PM | #3 |
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You might want to ask in the Recipes forum when you post your recipe.
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02-10-2011, 05:47 PM | #4 | |
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Thanks for the responses. I made the recipe in basic mode, but when I switch to advanced mode, here is what comes up:
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02-10-2011, 08:06 PM | #5 |
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One of your feeds has a form feed character in its description which is blowing up the XML parser. I'll add a workaround in the next release.
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02-10-2011, 09:38 PM | #6 |
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Thanks for the reply. I'll try eliminating feeds one at a time and see what happens. Thanks for making a great product!
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07-27-2011, 12:46 PM | #7 |
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Has this happened already? I'm getting the same issue with the following simple recipe
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class AdvancedUserRecipe1311785189(BasicNewsRecipe): title = u'Blogi' oldest_article = 1 max_articles_per_feed = 100 feeds = [(u'Ziemkiewicz', u'http://blog.rp.pl/ziemkiewicz/feed')] |
07-27-2011, 04:27 PM | #8 |
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The workaround was for that specific character, your feed presumably has another invalid character.
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07-28-2011, 07:07 AM | #9 |
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Great collection of Econ blogs, by the way!
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07-29-2011, 03:30 AM | #10 |
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Thanks, Kovid, that's what I thought.
One more check before I surrender: I trimmed the HTML using the preprocess_regexps leaving only the content <div> section. Does this mean the faulty character is in this section? In other words, is there a way to strip the document from all the risky stuff before any XML parsing starts? I though preprocess_regexps should do the job but apparently it doesn't. BTW, what are the kinds of faulty characters I should be looking for? |
07-29-2011, 03:34 AM | #11 |
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No there's no way to strip the document of all risky characters reliably. If there were, calibre would do it automatically. Incidentally, running your recipe works for me.
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10-01-2011, 12:01 PM | #12 |
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Can someone help me to download the econ blogs that Nuveen has mentioned. It would be a great help for me.
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