From 50cbea44837abc1a209555b75610b5b7baed46c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leonid Fedotov <3584432+iLeonidze@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 16:59:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update md_backend.py

Signed-off-by: Leonid Fedotov <3584432+iLeonidze@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docling/backend/md_backend.py | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docling/backend/md_backend.py b/docling/backend/md_backend.py
index fbe17ee0..d39890a9 100644
--- a/docling/backend/md_backend.py
+++ b/docling/backend/md_backend.py
@@ -247,7 +247,24 @@ class MarkdownDocumentBackend(DeclarativeDocumentBackend):
             self._process_inline_text(parent_item, doc)
             _log.debug(" - List item")
 
-            snippet_text = str(first_child.children[0].children)  # type: ignore
+            snippet_text = (
+                (lambda extractor:
+                 (lambda node: extractor(extractor, node))
+                 )
+                    (
+                    lambda self, node: (
+                        node.children
+                        if hasattr(node, 'children') and isinstance(node.children, str)
+                        else ''.join(
+                            self(self, child)
+                            for child in node.children
+                        )
+                        if hasattr(node, 'children')
+                        else str(node)
+                    )
+                )
+            )(first_child)  # type: ignore
+
             is_numbered = False
             if (
                 parent_item is not None