Bug : DocFx Parser crashes when rendering HTML for Exporting

[Trystan-SA]

Bug : DocFx Parser crashes when rendering HTML for Exporting

[RickStrahl]

Can you try the regular Markdown Parser, not the DocFx one?

It looks to me based on the error message, the problem occurs in the DocFx parser (which I don't control entirely - it's a libary that sits ontop of the MarkDig Engine used as the main parser).

[RickStrahl]

FWIW, if I run this with the regular parser it works fine:

Then tried it with the DocFx parser and that's not wrorking.

I took a quick look and the problem is that the DocFx parser requires a bunch of context in order to render (ie. an ActiveDocument) which is why this is failing from the CLI but works when you render from the editor - there's no active document at that time when running from the CLI. I'll need to see if I can fix this, or whether I turn off the output generation for DocFx.

[Trystan-SA]

Yes its working fine now. DocFX was indeed causing the issue ! Thanks for that !

[RickStrahl]

I took a quick look and the problem is that the DocFx parser requires a bunch of context in order to render (ie. an ActiveDocument) which is why this is failing from the CLI but works when you render from the editor - there's no active document at that time when running from the CLI. I'll need to see if I can fix this, or whether I turn off the output generation for DocFx.

It actually works from within the UI - it's only in the CLI it's failing.

I think the solution is to create the actual document from the markdown file before passing to the parser.

[RickStrahl]

The problem is that the DocFx parser requires additional state that is not available in the CLI. For now I've disabled exports from the CLI if the DocFx parser is active along with a message:

If the DocFx parser output is required, it's still possible through the Main UI.