TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'parentNode')

[ligi]

tried an export - got this:

node index.js

Starting wizard...
? Path to WordPress export file? /home/ligi/Downloads/wp_export.xml
? Path to output folder? output
? Create year folders? Yes
? Create month folders? No
? Create a folder for each post? Yes
? Prefix post folders/files with date? No
? Save images attached to posts? Yes
? Save images scraped from post body content? Yes
? Include custom post types and pages? No

Parsing...

Something went wrong, execution halted early.
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'parentNode')
    at isHeadingRow (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown-plugin-gfm/lib/turndown-plugin-gfm.cjs.js:100:23)
    at Object.filter (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown-plugin-gfm/lib/turndown-plugin-gfm.cjs.js:77:41)
    at filterValue (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown/lib/turndown.cjs.js:416:16)
    at findRule (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown/lib/turndown.cjs.js:404:9)
    at Rules.forNode (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown/lib/turndown.cjs.js:389:17)
    at TurndownService.replacementForNode (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown/lib/turndown.cjs.js:898:25)
    at /home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown/lib/turndown.cjs.js:863:40
    at NodeList.reduce (<anonymous>)
    at TurndownService.process (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown/lib/turndown.cjs.js:856:17)
    at TurndownService.replacementForNode (/home/ligi/git/3rd/wordpress-export-to-markdown/node_modules/turndown/lib/turndown.cjs.js:899:25)

[habi]

I get the same error.

• macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 (23G93)
• node -v gives v20.18.0
• I start the process with npx wordpress-export-to-markdown

[caranha]

I had the exact same error.

It turns out, in my case, it was a html table in one of my posts that was not properly closed, and was making the html parser library (turndown) to choke. Fixing the missing tag in my XML fixed the problem.

Check the tables in your xml, and see if there are any ones that are unclosed, that might be it.