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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+schema_url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/schema/v1.0.1/csl.rnc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/schema/602ad40976b7b455a3ce0b79f5534e8e75f088e9/csl.sch"
+validator_url="https://validator.w3.org/nu/"
+
+for command in "jq" "curl"; do
+  if ! which "$command" > /dev/null; then
+    echo "The utility $command appears not to be installed, please see:"
+    echo "https://command-not-found.com/$command"
+    echo "for installation instructions, then try again."
+    exit 10
+  fi
+done
+
+usage() {
+  echo "USAGE: $0 [-d] [file.csl]"
+  echo "  validate citation style language XML using the validation"
+  echo "  service from w3.org and the official schema from CSL github."
+  echo "  Adapted from:"
+  echo "  https://github.com/citation-style-language/csl-validator/blob/gh-pages/libraries/csl-validator.js"
+  echo "  Arguments:"
+  echo "    -d       -> print out debug messages (default: off)"
+  echo "    file.csl -> file to validate (optional, when absent will read stdin)"
+}
+
+DEBUG="False"
+while getopts "d?" opt; do
+  case $opt in
+    d) DEBUG="True"
+    ;;
+    ?) usage
+       exit 0
+    ;;
+    *) echo "Failed to parse command line options."
+       usage
+       exit 2
+    ;;
+  esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+file="${1:-/dev/stdin}"
+
+debug() {
+  if [[ "$DEBUG" == "True" ]]; then
+    echo "$@"
+  fi
+}
+
+debug "Will now attempt to validate document $file"
+
+debug "Attempting validation on validator $validator_url"
+
+# The line -F "file=@$file" instructs curl to send data from file $file
+# From the manual:
+# -F, --form <name=content>
+  # (HTTP SMTP IMAP) For HTTP protocol family, this lets curl emulate a
+  # filled-in form in which a user has pressed the submit button.
+  # This causes curl to POST data using the Content-Type
+  # multipart/form-data according to RFC 2388. […]
+  # This  enables  uploading  of binary files etc. To force the 'content'
+  # part to be a file, prefix the file name with an @ sign
+
+if ! server_response="$(curl --silent \
+  -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0' \
+  -H 'Accept: */*' \
+  -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,fr;q=0.8,es;q=0.5,de;q=0.3' \
+  -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
+  -H 'DNT: 1' \
+  -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
+  -H "Referer: $validator_url" \
+  -H 'Sec-GPC: 1' \
+  -X POST \
+  -F "schema=$schema_url" \
+  -F "parser=xml" \
+  -F "laxtype=yes" \
+  -F "level=error" \
+  -F "out=json" \
+  -F "showsource=no" \
+  -F "file=@$file" \
+  "$validator_url")"
+then
+  debug "curl returned failure code $?, see output below:"
+  debug "$messages"
+  exit 20
+fi
+debug "curl command completed successfully."
+
+messages="$(echo "$server_response" | jq .messages)"
+if [[ "$messages" == '[]' ]]; then
+  debug "✅ $file is valid CSL!"
+  exit 0
+fi
+debug " ❌ $file contains errors, see below:"
+echo "$messages" | jq -c '.[]' | while read -r error_json; do
+  line="$(echo "$error_json" | jq .firstLine)"
+  column="$(echo "$error_json" | jq .firstColumn)"
+  message="$(echo "$error_json" | jq .message)"
+  echo "M=$message L=$line C=$column"
+done
+exit 10