# FYI: Draft Guidance for using general-purpose validation tools with HSDS

**URL:** <https://forum.openreferral.org/t/fyi-draft-guidance-for-using-general-purpose-validation-tools-with-hsds/737>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Created:** [September 10, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/fyi-draft-guidance-for-using-general-purpose-validation-tools-with-hsds/737 "2025-09-10T07:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrshll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mrshll](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/mrshll)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/fyi-draft-guidance-for-using-general-purpose-validation-tools-with-hsds/737/1 "2025-09-10T07:43:02Z")

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I’ve drafted some guidance on using general purpose JSON Schema validation tools to validate HSDS data. We’ll be looking to add this to the non-normative guidance section of the docs site in due course, but Greg and I thought it’d be good to share with the community here.

- [Draft Guidance for Validating HSDS using generic tooling](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YrKNuSnZj6ptyJmlTGFmogtcmNY4AUkdSECpCF6WMHI/edit)

Please feel free to peruse it, comment on it, ask questions where it’s unclear, and add suggestions.