From ba4852ec74ea8159ac91a0bbc88469e7617b4963 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 22:47:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ox-md: Prevent error with empty items

* lisp/ox-md.el (org-md-item): Do not return an error when exporting
  an empty item.
---
 lisp/ox-md.el | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ox-md.el b/lisp/ox-md.el
index 50982add5..c77a4bcf0 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-md.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-md.el
@@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ a communication channel."
 	      (off "[ ] "))
 	    (let ((tag (org-element-property :tag item)))
 	      (and tag (format "**%s:** "(org-export-data tag info))))
-	    (org-trim (replace-regexp-in-string "^" "    " contents)))))
+	    (and contents
+		 (org-trim (replace-regexp-in-string "^" "    " contents))))))
 
 
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