diff --git a/extract_amendments.rb b/extract_amendments.rb
index a565c3b12a25db4665216b1b672108064b9b69e7..c1cfe2fff5ca0077ffcb031a068a0c9c56f2459f 100755
--- a/extract_amendments.rb
+++ b/extract_amendments.rb
@@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ doc = Nokogiri::XML::Document.parse(xml)
 if xml_dump_path
   File.open(xml_dump_path, "w") { |f| f.write doc.to_xml(indent: 2) }
 end
+
+
+text = doc.xpath('//office:text').first
+raise "no office:text found" unless text
+
+