I’m getting a weird result when I do a universal import of a JSON file exported from my old blog. I am importing the contents of old posts using the “html” field. Containers using blockquote tags only import correctly when they do not contain any br tags. If a blockquote does contain br tags, it renders empty in the resulting post.
Looking at the source HTML for the resulting post, I can see that the “empty” blockquote actually contains a single br tag and nothing else.
Using br inside blockquote is valid HTML, so I’m assuming this is a bug in the universal importer. Does anyone know of a workaround?
UPDATE: To clarify, I’ve been able to determine that the importer strips out all text except br tags when the blockquote contains them. If the blockquote contains four br tags, the four br tags will be all that remains in the container after import. (If the blockquote contains no br tags, the content makes it through fine.)