ENH: improved handling of non-existing text nodes

src/caoscrawler/xml_converter.py

@@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ class XMLTagConverter(Converter):
             vardict.update(m_tag.groupdict())
 
         if "match_text" in self.definition:
-            m_text = re.match(self.definition["match_text"], element.tag.text)
+            tagtext = element.tag.text
+            if element.tag.text is None:
+                tagtext = ""
+            m_text = re.match(self.definition["match_text"], tagtext, re.DOTALL)
             if m_text is None:
                 return None
             vardict.update(m_text.groupdict())
@@ -114,7 +117,6 @@ class XMLTagConverter(Converter):
                         matched_m_attrib = m_attrib
                         m_attrib_value = re.match(attrib_def_value, attr_value)
                         if m_attrib_value is None:
-                            breakpoint()
                             return None
                         matched_m_attrib_value = m_attrib_value
                 # TODO: How to deal with multiple matches?