# validating csl

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/validating-csl/75>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [May 24, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/validating-csl/75 "2005-05-24T18:32:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/validating-csl/75/1 "2005-05-24T18:32:31Z")

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FYI, if you want to validate CSL records quickly, I highly recommend  
this validator:

[http://www.davidashen.net/rnv.html](http://www.davidashen.net/rnv.html)

You can use this simple script with it (I called it validate-csl):

! /bin/bash  
rnv ~/Projects/citeproc/schemas/citationstyle.rnc $1

My csl files aren’t all valid right now 😉

Bruce