---
name: "folialint"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "folialint"
version: "2.21.1-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/folialint"
---

# folialint(1)

check validity of FoLiA documents

## NAME

folialint ‐ check validity of FoLiA documents

## SYNOPSIS

folialint \[options\] FILE(S)

## DESCRIPTION

**folialint** will check the validity of FoLiA files on a surface level:

‐ Is the tag structure according to the definition?

‐ Are all required elements and attributes present?

‐ Are the attributes and values valid?

‐ Are all annotations correctly declared?

‐ Is all text consistent?

## OPTIONS

- **--output** file

  write output to 'file'. (default is stdout). Assumes only 1 inputfile.

- **--nooutput**

  suppress al output except errors

- **--nochecktext**

  Disable checking text consistency. (for older FoLiA versions this wasn't forced to be so. Which is **wrong** )

- **--fixtext**

  Attempt to fix text problems like wrong offset's. Might be dangerous, and the default is to DON'T do it.

- **-a** or **--autodeclare**

  Attempt to automaticly fix missing annotations. (default: false)

- **--strip**

  strip all information from the file that makes comparison hard. Notably date/time information. This also enable '--canonical' output, meaning that otherwise unsorted tags are output in the same order every time.

- **--permissive**

  Accept documents with missing namespace declarations.

- **--warn**

  add some extra (warning) checks:

  ‐ About unused set declarations

  ‐ About possible incompatabilities between the current library version and the document version.

- **--canonical** or **--KANON**

  output annotation declarations and FoLiA nodes in a fixed (canonical) order. This might make tree comparisons easier.

- **-d** or **--debug level**

  run with a debug level of **level**

- **-V** or **--version**

  Show VERSION

- **-h** or **--help**

  Show some help

## BUGS

possible

## AUTHORS

Ko van der Sloot: lamasoftware@science.ru.nl