Ignore footnote separators

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/docx/footnotes-reader.js b/lib/docx/footnotes-reader.js
index a653b8a..33bca14 100644
--- a/lib/docx/footnotes-reader.js
+++ b/lib/docx/footnotes-reader.js
@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@ exports.readFootnotesXml = readFootnotesXml;
 var Footnotes = require("../documents").Footnotes;
 
 function readFootnotesXml(xml) {
-    return xml.root.getElementsByTagName("w:footnote").map(readFootnoteElement);
+    return xml.root.getElementsByTagName("w:footnote")
+        .filter(isFootnoteElement)
+        .map(readFootnoteElement);
+}
+
+function isFootnoteElement(element) {
+    var type = element.attributes["w:type"];
+    return type !== "continuationSeparator" && type !== "separator";
 }
 
 function readFootnoteElement(footnoteElement) {
diff --git a/tests/docx/footnotes-reader.tests.js b/tests/docx/footnotes-reader.tests.js
index 512f477..529937d 100644
--- a/tests/docx/footnotes-reader.tests.js
+++ b/tests/docx/footnotes-reader.tests.js
@@ -20,3 +20,19 @@ describe('readFootnotesXml', function() {
         assert.deepEqual(footnotes[0].id, "1");
     });
 });
+
+footnoteTypeIsIgnored('continuationSeparator');
+footnoteTypeIsIgnored('separator');
+
+function footnoteTypeIsIgnored(type) {
+    describe('footnotes of type ' + type + ' are ignored', function() {
+        test('ID and body of footnote are read', function() {
+            var footnotes = readFootnotesXml({
+                root: new XmlElement("w:footnotes", {}, [
+                    new XmlElement("w:footnote", {"w:id": "1", "w:type": type}, [])
+                ])
+            });
+            assert.equal(footnotes.length, 0);
+        });
+    });
+}