diff --git a/src/file/styles/external-styles-factory.spec.ts b/src/file/styles/external-styles-factory.spec.ts
index e078ffc7f7..5bc7925e8d 100644
--- a/src/file/styles/external-styles-factory.spec.ts
+++ b/src/file/styles/external-styles-factory.spec.ts
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ describe("External styles factory", () => {
             // tslint:disable-next-line:no-any
             const importedStyle = new ExternalStylesFactory().newInstance(externalStyles) as any;
 
-            expect(importedStyle.root.length).to.equal(6);
+            expect(importedStyle.root.length).to.equal(5);
             expect(importedStyle.root[3]).to.eql({
                 _attr: {
                     "w:default": "1",
diff --git a/src/file/xml-components/imported-xml-component.ts b/src/file/xml-components/imported-xml-component.ts
index ceec177e88..23c4137900 100644
--- a/src/file/xml-components/imported-xml-component.ts
+++ b/src/file/xml-components/imported-xml-component.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ export const parseOptions = {
     ignoreAttributes: false,
     attributeNamePrefix: "",
     attrNodeName: "_attr",
-    textNodeName: "",
-    trimValues: false,
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/file/xml-components/xml-component.ts b/src/file/xml-components/xml-component.ts
index 8afc5d4782..0ed604e9ee 100644
--- a/src/file/xml-components/xml-component.ts
+++ b/src/file/xml-components/xml-component.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export abstract class XmlComponent extends BaseXmlComponent {
                 }
                 return comp;
             })
-            .filter((comp) => comp !== null); // Exclude null, undefined, and empty strings
+            .filter((comp) => comp); // Exclude null, undefined, and empty strings
         return {
             [this.rootKey]: children,
         };