From 5ff6719d4cd12156490df98c299f45f7a2a717ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Carol (Nichols || Goulding)" <carol.nichols@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:29:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Handle whitespace-only italic nodes

---
 tools/docx-to-md.xsl | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/docx-to-md.xsl b/tools/docx-to-md.xsl
index 2c98332..88b9c23 100644
--- a/tools/docx-to-md.xsl
+++ b/tools/docx-to-md.xsl
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:wps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape" xmlns:wpg="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:wp14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:w14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml">
     <xsl:output method="text" />
-    <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
     <xsl:template match="/">
         <xsl:apply-templates select="/w:document/w:body/*" />
     </xsl:template>
@@ -34,6 +33,19 @@
         <xsl:text>`</xsl:text>
     </xsl:template>
 
+    <xsl:template match="w:r[w:rPr/w:rStyle/@w:val = 'EmphasisItalic']">
+        <xsl:choose>
+            <xsl:when test="normalize-space(w:t) != ''">
+                <xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
+                <xsl:value-of select="w:t" />
+                <xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
+            </xsl:when>
+            <xsl:otherwise>
+                <xsl:value-of select="w:t" />
+            </xsl:otherwise>
+        </xsl:choose>
+    </xsl:template>
+
     <xsl:template match="w:p[w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val = 'CodeA']">
         <xsl:text>```&#10;</xsl:text>
         <xsl:value-of select="w:r/w:t" />