diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index ea34d0d..2fbfd3f 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 ### Fixed
 - Multiple build variants are published after upgrading gradle maven publish plugin to [0.19.0](https://github.com/vanniktech/gradle-maven-publish-plugin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#version-0190-2022-02-26)
+- A NPE in SingleApostropheDetector for atypical resource definitions
 
 ### Security
 
diff --git a/checks/src/main/kotlin/com/faithlife/lint/SingleApostropheDetector.kt b/checks/src/main/kotlin/com/faithlife/lint/SingleApostropheDetector.kt
index 3d8eaa2..6759313 100644
--- a/checks/src/main/kotlin/com/faithlife/lint/SingleApostropheDetector.kt
+++ b/checks/src/main/kotlin/com/faithlife/lint/SingleApostropheDetector.kt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package com.faithlife.lint
 
 import com.android.resources.ResourceFolderType
 import com.android.tools.lint.detector.api.*
+import com.android.utils.text
 import org.w3c.dom.Element
 
 class SingleApostropheDetector : ResourceXmlDetector() {
@@ -11,20 +12,24 @@ class SingleApostropheDetector : ResourceXmlDetector() {
     override fun getApplicableElements(): MutableCollection<String> = mutableListOf("string")
 
     override fun visitElement(context: XmlContext, element: Element) {
-        if (SINGLE_APOSTROPHE_REGEX.containsMatchIn(element.firstChild.nodeValue)) {
-            val fix = LintFix.create()
-                .replace()
-                .pattern("\\\\?'")
-                .with("’")
-                .build()
-
-            context.report(
-                ISSUE,
-                element,
-                context.getLocation(element),
-                "Prefer unicode apostrophes.\n\nhttps://wiki.lrscorp.net/Use_Unicode_Punctuation_Characters",
-                fix
-            )
+        try {
+            if (SINGLE_APOSTROPHE_REGEX.containsMatchIn(element.textContent)) {
+                val fix = LintFix.create()
+                    .replace()
+                    .pattern("\\\\?'")
+                    .with("’")
+                    .build()
+
+                context.report(
+                    ISSUE,
+                    element,
+                    context.getLocation(element),
+                    "Prefer unicode apostrophes.\n\nhttps://wiki.lrscorp.net/Use_Unicode_Punctuation_Characters",
+                    fix
+                )
+            }
+        } catch (e: NullPointerException) {
+            println("File: ${context.file.absolutePath}\nText: ${element.text()} Element: $element")
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 9410c15..261f020 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx3g -XX:+UseParallelGC
 
 GROUP=com.faithlife
-VERSION_NAME=1.1.5
+VERSION_NAME=1.1.6
 
 POM_URL=https://github.com/Faithlife/AndroidLint/
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=android-lint