diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index d04ebd3..7242737 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2.4.3 2023-03-02
+        - Allow closing elements to start with "text".
+
 2.4.2 2023-02-10
         - Improve checks for numerical annotation bounds.
 
diff --git a/lib/KorAP/XML/TEI/Tokenizer/KorAP.pm b/lib/KorAP/XML/TEI/Tokenizer/KorAP.pm
index f38ba6c..0894a3c 100644
--- a/lib/KorAP/XML/TEI/Tokenizer/KorAP.pm
+++ b/lib/KorAP/XML/TEI/Tokenizer/KorAP.pm
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 use warnings;
 use File::Share ':all';
 
-our $VERSION = '2.4.1';
+our $VERSION = '2.4.3';
 
 use constant {
   WAIT_SECS => 30
diff --git a/script/tei2korapxml b/script/tei2korapxml
index e043e9b..4e4c46e 100755
--- a/script/tei2korapxml
+++ b/script/tei2korapxml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 use KorAP::XML::TEI::Header;
 use KorAP::XML::TEI::Inline;
 
-our $VERSION = '2.4.1';
+our $VERSION = '2.4.3';
 
 our $VERSION_MSG = "\ntei2korapxml - v$VERSION\n";
 
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
       $_ = replace_entities($_);
 
       # End of text body
-      if ((my $pos = index($_, '</' . $_TEXT_BODY)) >= 0) {
+      if ((my $pos = index($_, "</$_TEXT_BODY>")) >= 0) {
 
         # write data.xml, structure.xml and evtl. morpho.xml and/or tokenization files
 
diff --git a/t/data/text_with_textsigle_in_text.i5.xml b/t/data/text_with_textsigle_in_text.i5.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a8af32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/data/text_with_textsigle_in_text.i5.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<idsCorpus>
+  <idsHeader type="text">
+    <textSigle>CORP/DOC.00001</textSigle>
+  </idsHeader>
+  <text>
+   <textSigle>CORP/DOC.00001b</textSigle>
+   <p>  This is a text, that starts with *2* (not "twenty-two" ;) blanks!</p>
+  </text>
+</idsCorpus>
diff --git a/t/script.t b/t/script.t
index 2847550..dfec340 100644
--- a/t/script.t
+++ b/t/script.t
@@ -798,4 +798,15 @@
   )->stderr_like(qr!No tokenizer chosen!);
 };
 
+subtest 'Test handling of textSigle in text' => sub {
+
+  my $t = test_tei2korapxml(
+    file => catfile($f, 'data', 'text_with_textsigle_in_text.i5.xml'),
+    tmp => 'script_out',
+    param => '-ti'
+  )
+    ->stderr_like(qr!tei2korapxml:.*? text_id=CORP_DOC.00001!)
+    ->stderr_unlike(qr!line with closing text-body tag 'text' contains additional information!);
+};
+
 done_testing;