Footnotes

tei2imxml.py

@@ -469,7 +469,11 @@ def transform_body(xml_tree, cited_data, publang):
 
         fn_parent = footnote.getparent()
         # we assert here that the parent of a footnote is always a paragraph
-        assert(fn_parent.tag == "p")
+        footnote_id = footnote.xpath("@xml:id")[0]
+
+        if fn_parent.tag != "p":
+            print("This footnote's parent is not a p element: %s. Exiting." % footnote_id)
+            sys.exit()
 
         fn_paragraphs = footnote.xpath("t:p", namespaces=NS_MAP)
         for fn_paragraph in fn_paragraphs: