diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 5099a22..86b44fb 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2.7.1 2026-03-05
+        - Fix parser error when closing body and text tags
+          appear on the same line.
+
 2.7.0 2026-03-03
         - Upgrade KorAP-Tokenizer to v2.4.0
           with fixes for soft hyphens, thousands separators, and
diff --git a/script/tei2korapxml b/script/tei2korapxml
index f5aaa95..628bd26 100755
--- a/script/tei2korapxml
+++ b/script/tei2korapxml
@@ -310,12 +310,21 @@
 
           # write data.xml, structure.xml and evtl. morpho.xml and/or tokenization files
 
-          if ((substr($_, 0, $pos) . substr($_, length("</$_TEXT_BODY>") + $pos)) !~ /^\s*$/) {
+          my $before = substr($_, 0, $pos);
+          my $after  = substr($_, length("</$_TEXT_BODY>") + $pos);
+          my $before_check = $before;
+          $before_check =~ s/<[^>]+>//g;  # strip XML tags like </body>
+          if (($before_check . $after) !~ /^\s*$/) {
             die $log->fatal("input line number $.: " .
               "line with closing text-body tag '${_TEXT_BODY}'" .
               " contains additional information ... => Aborting (line=$_)");
           };
 
+          # Add any remaining content before </text> (e.g. </body>) to the buffer
+          $before =~ s/^\s+//;
+          $before =~ s/\s+$//;
+          $text_buffer .= $before if $before ne '';
+
           if ($dir eq '') {
             $log->warn(
               "Maybe empty textSigle => skipping this text ...\n" .
diff --git a/t/script.t b/t/script.t
index 2989e72..b892236 100644
--- a/t/script.t
+++ b/t/script.t
@@ -809,6 +809,54 @@
     ->stderr_unlike(qr!line with closing text-body tag 'text' contains additional information!);
 };
 
+subtest 'Handling of closing body and text tags on same line' => sub {
+
+  # Create a custom test file where </body> and </text> are on the same line
+  my ($fh, $testfile) = korap_tempfile('script_closing_tags');
+  print $fh <<'XML';
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<idsCorpus>
+  <idsHeader type="corpus">
+    <fileDesc>
+      <titleStmt>
+        <korpusSigle>AAA</korpusSigle>
+      </titleStmt>
+    </fileDesc>
+  </idsHeader>
+  <idsDoc version="1.0">
+    <idsHeader type="document">
+      <fileDesc>
+        <titleStmt>
+          <dokumentSigle>AAA/BBB</dokumentSigle>
+        </titleStmt>
+      </fileDesc>
+    </idsHeader>
+    <idsText version="1.0">
+      <idsHeader type="text">
+        <fileDesc>
+          <titleStmt>
+            <textSigle>AAA/BBB.00000</textSigle>
+          </titleStmt>
+        </fileDesc>
+      </idsHeader>
+      <text>
+        <body><p>some text</p>
+        </body>     </text>
+    </idsText>
+  </idsDoc>
+</idsCorpus>
+XML
+  close($fh);
+
+  test_tei2korapxml(
+    file => $testfile,
+    tmp => 'script_closing_tags_out',
+    param => '-ti'
+  )
+    ->stderr_like(qr!tei2korapxml:.*? text_id=AAA_BBB\.00000!)
+    ->stderr_unlike(qr!line with closing text-body tag 'text' contains additional information!);
+};
+
 subtest 'Handling of whitespace at linebreaks' => sub {
   my $t = test_tei2korapxml(
     file => catfile($f, 'data', 'stadigmer.p5.xml'),