Table of Contents

• 1. Usage
• 2. Options
• 3. Examples
• 4. Checks performed
• 5. Exit codes

Validate a document’s structure and check for common issues.

1. Usage

uniword validate FILE

2. Options

--verbose, -v

Show detailed validation results including empty paragraphs and empty tables.

3. Examples

Validate a document:

$ uniword validate document.docx

Validating document.docx...
  File format is valid
  Document structure is valid
  Document contains content

Validation complete!

Verbose output:

uniword validate document.docx --verbose

4. Checks performed

Check	Description
File format	Verifies the file can be loaded without errors
Document structure	Calls doc.valid? to check structural integrity
Content presence	Confirms the document has paragraphs or tables
Empty paragraphs	Counts paragraphs with no text (verbose only)
Empty tables	Counts tables with no content (verbose only)

5. Exit codes

• 0 — Document is valid

• 1 — Validation failed