OOXML Validator

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Validate the XML inside a .docx or .xlsx against the OOXML schemas, and render an HTML report of the failures. Use when a generated Office document opens with a repair prompt or fails to open at all.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the OOXML Validator skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by stbenjam/skillsaw in tests/fixtures/agentskills/unreferenced-glob-loaded/ooxml-validator/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Unpack the document, then validate every part against the OOXML schemas:

unzip -q report.docx -d unpacked/
python scripts/validate.py unpacked/ --report validation.html

Reading the output

Each failure names the part, the line, and the schema rule it violated. Fix the part in unpacked/, re-zip, and re-run until the run is clean.

Pass --strict to fail on the warnings the Office applications tolerate, such as an unknown attribute in a namespace the document declares but never uses.

Legacy flat-file exports are out of scope: convert them to .docx first.

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Sep 2026
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