diff --git a/secretary.py b/secretary.py
index 9dd8c46..f3aaa2c 100644
--- a/secretary.py
+++ b/secretary.py
@@ -719,19 +719,20 @@ class Renderer(object):
 
                 # Transfer child nodes
                 if html_node.hasChildNodes():
-                    for child_node in html_node.childNodes:
-                        # We can't directly insert text into a text:list-item
-                        # element. The content of the item most be wrapped inside
-                        # a container like text:p. When there's not a double linebreak
-                        # separating list elements, markdown2 creates <li> elements without
-                        # wraping their contents inside a container. Here we automatically
-                        # create the container if one was not created by markdown2.
-                        if (tag == 'li' and (not child_node.localName)):
-                            container = xml_object.createElement('text:p')
-                            container.appendChild(child_node.cloneNode(True))
-                            child_node = container
+                    # We can't directly insert text into a text:list-item element.
+                    # The content of the item most be wrapped inside a container
+                    # like text:p. When there's not a double linebreak separating
+                    # list elements, markdown2 creates <li> elements without wraping
+                    # their contents inside a container. Here we automatically create
+                    # the container if one was not created by markdown2.
+                    if (tag=='li' and html_node.childNodes[0].localName <> 'p'):
+                        container = xml_object.createElement('text:p')
+                        odt_node.appendChild(container)
+                    else:
+                        container = odt_node
 
-                        odt_node.appendChild(child_node.cloneNode(True))
+                    for child_node in html_node.childNodes:
+                        container.appendChild(child_node.cloneNode(True))
 
                 # Add style-attributes defined in transform_map
                 if 'style_attributes' in transform_map[tag]: