having trouble getting books to convert

[misschris]

I have converted many books form pml to epub with no problems, but these last three are giving me fits, The original error is that metadata can not be read. So I registered and was then able to use my access key to download metadata. Then when I try to convert I get an error that the conversion failed with the following script... what is going wrong?

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, No. 9))

Convert book 1 of 1 (To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, No. 9))
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'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': 'c:\\users\\missch~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibr e_0.6.33_88q5pe.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_justify': 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.InputProfile object at 0x042FD830>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'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,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x042FD9F0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\users\\missch~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibr e_0.6.33_rg6bgz.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,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: PML Input running
on C:\Users\miss chris\Calibre Library\Janet Evanovich\To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, No. 9) (1)\To the Nines (Stephanie Plum, No. 9) - Janet Evanovich.pml
Converting PML to HTML...
Reading metadata from input file...
Generating manifest...
Parsing all content...
OPF contains invalid tours section
Python function terminated unexpectedly
PCDATA invalid Char value 25, line 9, column 33 (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 96, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 21, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 754, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 877, in create_oebbook
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 71, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 119, in _read_opf
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2538, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:48266)
File "parser.pxi", line 1536, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71653)
File "parser.pxi", line 1408, in lxml.etree._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:70449)
File "parser.pxi", line 898, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:67144)
File "parser.pxi", line 539, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:63820)
File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64741)
File "parser.pxi", line 565, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64084)
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: PCDATA invalid Char value 25, line 9, column 33

[misschris]

I am new here and after doiong a lot more poking around I am wondering if I should have not made this post and should have put in a ticket instead. Can someone advise me as to the correct way to proceed? I am a member of many forums and I always resent those that jump right in and do not take the time to observe and learn how the forum works before they jump in with both feet. I am afraid that that is exactly what I have done here and if so I apologize.

[kovidgoyal]

Best way to report problems is to opena ticket and attach the file causing the problems.