Improve error message when failing to find the body element in a docu…

…ment

NEWS

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 * Support attributes in HTML paths in style mappings.
 
+* Improve error message when failing to find the body element in a document.
+
 # 1.6.0
 
 * Add transformDocument to the TypeScript declarations.

lib/docx/document-xml-reader.js

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ function DocumentXmlReader(options) {
     function convertXmlToDocument(element) {
         var body = element.first("w:body");
 
+        if (body == null) {
+            throw new Error("Could not find the body element: are you sure this is a docx file?");
+        }
+
         var result = bodyReader.readXmlElements(body.children)
             .map(function(children) {
                 return new documents.Document(children, {

test/docx/document-xml-reader.tests.js

@@ -23,3 +23,17 @@ test("when body element is present then body is read", function() {
         {}
     ));
 });
+
+test("when body element is not present then error is thrown", function() {
+    var bodyReader = createBodyReaderForTests({});
+    var documentXmlReader = new DocumentXmlReader({
+        bodyReader: bodyReader
+    });
+    var paragraphXml = xml.element("w:p", {}, []);
+    var bodyXml = xml.element("w:body2", {}, [paragraphXml]);
+    var documentXml = xml.element("w:document", {}, [bodyXml]);
+
+    assert.throws(function() {
+        documentXmlReader.convertXmlToDocument(documentXml);
+    }, /Could not find the body element: are you sure this is a docx file?/);
+});