New recipe for Cuba Debate by Darko Miletic. Also improve effectiveness of the linearize tables transform.

src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/linearize_tables.py

@@ -6,15 +6,19 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
-from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import OEB_DOCS, XPNSMAP
+from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import OEB_DOCS, XPath
 
 class LinearizeTables(object):
 
     def linearize(self, root):
-        for x in root.xpath('//h:table|//h:td|//h:tr|//h:th',
-                namespaces=XPNSMAP):
+        for x in XPath('//h:table|//h:td|//h:tr|//h:th|//h:caption|'
+                '//h:tbody|//h:tfoot|//h:thead|//h:colgroup|//h:col')(root):
             x.tag = 'div'
-            for attr in ('valign', 'colspan', 'rowspan', 'width', 'halign'):
+            for attr in ('style', 'font', 'valign',
+                         'colspan', 'width', 'height',
+                         'rowspan', 'summary', 'align',
+                         'cellspacing', 'cellpadding',
+                         'frames', 'rules', 'border'):
                 if attr in x.attrib:
                     del x.attrib[attr]
 

src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'the_budget_fashionista', 'elperiodico_catalan',
            'elperiodico_spanish', 'expansion_spanish', 'lavanguardia',
            'marca', 'kellog_faculty', 'kellog_insight', 'noaa',
-           '7dias', 'buenosaireseconomico', 'huntechnet',
+           '7dias', 'buenosaireseconomico', 'huntechnet', 'cubadebate',
            'diagonales', 'miradasalsur', 'newsweek_argentina', 'veintitres',
            'gva_be', 'hln', 'tijd', 'degentenaar', 'inquirer_net', 'uncrate',
            'fastcompany', 'accountancyage', 'laprensa_hn', 'latribuna',

src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_cubadebate.py

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
+'''
+newyorker.com
+'''
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag
+
+class CubaDebate(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title                 = 'CubaDebate'
+    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
+    description           = 'Contra el Terorismo Mediatico'
+    oldest_article        = 15
+    language              = _('Spanish')
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+    no_stylesheets        = True
+    use_embedded_content  = False
+    publisher             = 'Cubadebate'
+    category              = 'news, politics, Cuba'
+    encoding              = 'utf-8'
+    extra_css             = ' #BlogTitle{font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold} '
+    
+    conversion_options = {  
+                             'comments'    : description
+                            ,'tags'        : category
+                            ,'language'    : 'es'
+                            ,'publisher'   : publisher
+                            ,'pretty_print': True
+                         }
+                         
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'Outline'})]
+    remove_tags_after = dict(name='div',attrs={'id':'BlogContent'})
+    remove_tags = [dict(name='link')]
+
+    feeds          = [(u'Articulos', u'http://www.cubadebate.cu/feed/')]
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        return url + 'print/'
+
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        return self.adeify_images(soup)