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JSON-LD SCHEMA VALIDATOR

Primary sources:
each finding traced to a document

The validator holds no private opinion about correctness. This is the register of published material it treats as authority, with a link to each one.

DOCUMENT ID TOOL/2026/JSV/0005
PUBLISHED 23 Aug. 2026
READ TIME 4 min
ADDRESS aaanow.ai/json-validator (live End Sept 2026)

The public methodology explains how to interpret the complete result, including its validation layers, authority precedence, severity, current bundle versions and source observation dates. It also records known limitations, robots handling, rendering conditions, privacy controls, correction policy and the relationship between those parts.

Individual findings link to authorities and primary sources. That transparency makes a conclusion reviewable without exposing proprietary rule implementation or the internal source-mapping methods that distinguish the product.

01How the register is used.

The register below identifies the external authorities reflected in this document. Production rule bundles retain the precise source location, observation date and version metadata behind each rule; the register is the public orientation layer, not a substitute for that evidence. It offers external reviewers a direct route into the governing material cited throughout the finished operating product.

02The register.

Internet standards.

  1. RFC 8259: JSON Data Interchange Format
    Governs JSON grammar and duplicate-name interoperability handling.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  2. RFC 8785: JSON Canonicalization Scheme
    Supports deterministic post-parse content identity.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8785rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  3. RFC 6901: JSON Pointer
    Supplies source-value location syntax within result evidence.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6901rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  4. RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol
    Informs anonymous URL retrieval and crawl-policy evidence.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  5. RFC 9457: Problem Details for HTTP APIs
    Defines machine-readable service error envelopes.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened

W3C recommendations.

  1. W3C JSON-LD 1.1
    Governs JSON-LD syntax, data model, HTML embedding and security considerations.www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  2. W3C JSON-LD 1.1 Processing Algorithms and API
    Governs expansion, document loading, extraction and normative processing errors.www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-api/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  3. W3C SHACL
    Defines RDF graph validation against governed constraint shapes.www.w3.org/TR/shacl/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  4. W3C WCAG 2.2
    Defines the public-interface accessibility assurance target.www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened

Schema.org.

  1. Schema.org data model
    Defines types, properties, hierarchy, domains, ranges and value multiplicity.schema.org/docs/datamodel.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  2. Schema.org developer documentation
    Supplies machine-readable release data and identifier guidance.schema.org/docs/developers.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  3. Schema.org releases
    Identifies release 30.0 and its publication date.schema.org/docs/releases.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  4. Schema.org working process
    Defines core, pending and release-status handling.schema.org/docs/howwework.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened

Google Search documentation.

  1. Google structured-data testing guidance
    Separates generic Schema.org validation from Google rich-result testing.developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/rich-results-testdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  2. Google general structured-data policies
    Defines published technical and page-policy conditions.developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policiesdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  3. Google Search Gallery
    Supplies the supported structured-data feature documentation set.developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/search-gallerydevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  4. Google Search documentation updates
    Records continuing feature and property changes.developers.google.com/search/updatesdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  5. Google JavaScript SEO guidance
    Supports raw and rendered comparison plus crawl findings.developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/javascript/javascript-seo-basicsdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened

Security guidance.

  1. OWASP SSRF Prevention Cheat Sheet
    Supports layered public-URL destination controls.cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Server_Side_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.htmlcheatsheetseries.owasp.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  2. OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet
    Supports safe source display and output encoding controls.cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Scripting_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.htmlcheatsheetseries.owasp.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened

Tooling and reporting.

  1. Playwright container guidance
    Supports sandboxed, non-root handling of untrusted page rendering.playwright.dev/docs/dockerplaywright.devWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
  2. OASIS SARIF 2.1.0
    Defines the standard used for static-analysis interchange.docs.oasis-open.org/sarif/sarif/v2.1.0/sarif-v2.1.0.htmldocs.oasis-open.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened

03No artificial eligibility promise.

A Google consumer result says whether the published technical requirements were met under the recorded rule bundle. It does not promise indexing, ranking or a rich-result appearance; Google’s own policies separate those outcomes from technical validation.

Questions of usefulness, reputation, deception and overall page quality still require human judgement. Where the available evidence cannot settle a policy question, the product says so. Absence of evidence becomes neither an invented failure nor an implied approval. The recorded boundary makes that limit explicit, preventing policy judgement from being mistaken for a machine-certified conclusion at any point in the result.