diff --git a/Pod/Classes/XPathQuery.m b/Pod/Classes/XPathQuery.m
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b3f58a9..d380c60
--- a/Pod/Classes/XPathQuery.m
+++ b/Pod/Classes/XPathQuery.m
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
     if (nodeContent != NULL) {
         NSString *currentNodeContent = [NSString stringWithCString:(const char *)nodeContent
                                                           encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
+        if (currentNodeContent == nil) {
+            currentNodeContent = @"";
+        }
         if ([resultForNode[@"nodeName"] isEqual:@"text"] && parentResult) {
             if (parentContent) {
                 NSCharacterSet *charactersToTrim = [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet];