How detelete empty paragraph?

[cyttorak]

Hi

I'm writing this recipe:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1416065639(BasicNewsRecipe):
	title	= u'Ganemos Feminismos'
	oldest_article = 365
	max_articles_per_feed = 100
	auto_cleanup = True
	reverse_article_order = True
	remove_empty_feeds = True
	language = 'es_ES'
	publisher = 'Ganemos'
	publication_type = 'actas'
	feeds	= [(u'Feminismos', u'http://ganemosmadrid.info/category/actas/actas_feminismos/feed/')]
	extra_css = '.calibre_navbar, *:empty {display:none;}'
	preprocess_regexps = [
		(re.compile(r' ',re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),
		(re.compile(r'\s*<p[^>]*>\s*</p>\s*',re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '')
	]

	def get_cover_url(self):
		return 'http://ganemosmadrid.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/GM_ORG_SEPT.png'

but I'm still see empty paragraph in my .epub. I see the line blank for each:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

I get:

<p class="calibre8"> </p>

how can I delete this kind of empty tags?

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

You need to look at the actual source html of the articles in question, not the html in the final book. Visiting one of the articles in that feed, I see no <p>&nbsp;</p> in the article html. There will be something in that markup that is getting mapped to empty paragreaphs by auto_cleanup. You will have to figure out what that is. Or dont use auto_cleanup and instead use keep_only_tags/remove_tags

[cyttorak]

Thank kovidgoyal

but the solution was this:

preprocess_regexps = [
(re.compile(u'\xa0'), lambda match: ' '),
(re.compile(r'&nbsp;',re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ' '),
(re.compile(r'\s*<p[^>]*>\s*</p>\s*',re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '')
]

I saw it here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...a0-from-string