diff -r 76e8ec46828a -r 745b64e7c695 plcopen/plcopen.py
--- a/plcopen/plcopen.py	Fri Dec 25 17:12:02 2020 +0000
+++ b/plcopen/plcopen.py	Mon Jan 18 10:59:28 2021 +0100
@@ -331,12 +331,16 @@
 
 
 def SaveProject(project, filepath):
-    project_file = open(filepath, 'w')
-    project_file.write(etree.tostring(
+    content = etree.tostring(
         project,
         pretty_print=True,
         xml_declaration=True,
-        encoding='utf-8'))
+        encoding='utf-8')
+
+    assert len(content) != 0
+        
+    project_file = open(filepath, 'w')
+    project_file.write(content)
     project_file.close()