Conversion pipeline: Decode XML files in a more fault tolerant manner

resources/recipes/guardian.recipe

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 '''
 www.guardian.co.uk
 '''
-#from calibre import strftime
+from calibre import strftime
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class Guardian(BasicNewsRecipe):
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class Guardian(BasicNewsRecipe):
     language = 'en_GB'
 
     oldest_article = 7
-    max_articles_per_feed = 50
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
     remove_javascript = True
 
     timefmt = ' [%a, %d %b %Y]'
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ class Guardian(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
           return soup
 
-
-
-'''
     def find_sections(self):
         soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian')
         # find cover pic
@@ -113,11 +110,13 @@ class Guardian(BasicNewsRecipe):
                         }
 
     def parse_index(self):
+        try:
             feeds = []
             for title, href in self.find_sections():
                 feeds.append((title, list(self.find_articles(href))))
             return feeds
-'''
+        except:
+            raise NotImplementedError
 
 
 

src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py

@@ -759,6 +759,7 @@ class Manifest(object):
                 % (self.id, self.href, self.media_type)
 
         def _parse_xml(self, data):
+            data = xml_to_unicode(data, strip_encoding_pats=True)[0]
             parser = etree.XMLParser(recover=True)
             try:
                 return etree.fromstring(data, parser=parser)