diff --git a/.github/scripts/compliance_parser.sh b/.github/scripts/compliance_parser.sh
index 154bde9f1..c6af83153 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/compliance_parser.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/compliance_parser.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# Check for xml output file 
+if [ -f "$1" ]; then
+    echo "$1 exists."
+else 
+    echo "$1 does not exist."
+    exit 1
+fi
 # Parse the XML data
 errors=$(xmllint --xpath 'string(//testsuite/@errors)' "$1")
 failures=$(xmllint --xpath 'string(//testsuite/@failures)' "$1")