New user, conversion problem...

[gtriever]

I have tried as much as my limited brain will allow on a conversion from .lit to epub, with no luck. Here's the error info, with hopes you smarter folks can help me solve the issue:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (The All White Elf)

Convert book 1 of 1 (The All White Elf)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.16
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': u'D:/Calibre Debug',
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.MSReaderInput object at 0x04FB3A10>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_svg_cover': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.NookOutput object at 0x04FB3CB0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\users\\artmoo~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibr e_0.7.16_tmp_8onqsw\\calibre_0.7.16_sso12q.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: LIT Input running
on D:\Calibre Library\Lester Dent\The All White Elf (1)\The All White Elf - Lester Dent.lit
Parsing all content...
Parsing 097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm ...
Initial parse failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.py", line 816, in first_pass
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2532, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:48270)
File "parser.pxi", line 1545, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71812)
File "parser.pxi", line 1417, in lxml.etree._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:70608)
File "parser.pxi", line 898, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:67148)
File "parser.pxi", line 539, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:63824)
File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64745)
File "parser.pxi", line 565, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64088)
XMLSyntaxError: PCDATA invalid Char value 1, line 1, column 18

Parsing file '097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm' as HTML
Forcing 097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm into XHTML namespace
File '097%20-%20The%20All%20White%20Elf.htm' missing <head/> element
Parsing ~cov0141.htm ...
Forcing ~cov0141.htm into XHTML namespace
Generating default TOC from spine...
Input debug saved to: D:\Calibre Debug\input
Python function terminated unexpectedly
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines' (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 825, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\lit\input.py", line 46, in postprocess_book
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\txt\processor.py", line 24, in convert_basic
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines'

[ldolse]

You should open a bug and post your file. Something about it's formatting is preventing the text processing function from working as designed.

Immediate fix would be to use Convertlit to extract the html from the file and convert from html instead of Lit.