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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2024 The SPDX Contributors
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - 'docs/*.md'  # For code snippets inside a document
+      - 'examples/jsonld/*.json'
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - 'docs/*.md'
+      - 'examples/jsonld/*.json'
+  workflow_dispatch: {}
+jobs:
+  validate-examples:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@eef61447b9ff4aafe5dcd4e0bbf5d482be7e7871  #v4.2.1
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          python3 -m pip install check-jsonschema==0.29.4 pyshacl==0.27.0 spdx3-validate==0.0.4
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt install -y gawk  
+      - name: Check examples
+        run: |
+          ./bin/check-examples.sh
diff --git a/bin/check-examples.sh b/bin/check-examples.sh
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+#! /bin/bash
+#
+# Validates SPDX example, both in separate files and inline in the
+# documentation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2024 The SPDX Contributors
+
+set -e
+
+THIS_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
+MD_DIR=docs
+JSON_DIR=examples/jsonld
+
+SPDX_VERSION="3.0.1"
+SCHEMA_URL="https://spdx.org/schema/${SPDX_VERSION}/spdx-json-schema.json"
+RDF_URL="https://spdx.org/rdf/${SPDX_VERSION}/spdx-model.ttl"
+CONTEXT_URL="https://spdx.org/rdf/${SPDX_VERSION}/spdx-context.jsonld"
+
+# print validation setup
+echo "Checking examples in"
+echo "Snippets         : $MD_DIR"
+echo "Files            : $JSON_DIR"
+echo "SPDX version     : $SPDX_VERSION"
+echo "Schema           : $SCHEMA_URL"
+echo "Schema resolved  : $(curl -I "$SCHEMA_URL" 2>/dev/null | grep -i "location:" | awk '{print $2}')"
+echo "RDF              : $RDF_URL"
+echo "RDF resolved     : $(curl -I "$RDF_URL" 2>/dev/null | grep -i "location:" | awk '{print $2}')"
+echo "Context          : $CONTEXT_URL"
+echo "Context resolved : $(curl -I "$CONTEXT_URL" 2>/dev/null | grep -i "location:" | awk '{print $2}')"
+echo "$(check-jsonschema --version)"
+echo -n "$(pyshacl --version)"
+echo "spdx3-validate version: $(spdx3-validate --version)"
+echo ""
+
+check_schema() {
+    echo "Checking schema (check-jsonschema): $1"
+    check-jsonschema \
+        --verbose \
+        --schemafile $SCHEMA_URL \
+        "$1"
+}
+
+check_model() {
+    echo "Checking model (pyschacl): $1"
+    pyshacl \
+        --shacl $RDF_URL \
+        --ont-graph $RDF_URL \
+        "$1"
+}
+
+check_spdx() {
+    echo "SPDX 3 validating (spdx3-validate): $1"
+    spdx3-validate --json $1
+}
+
+# Check examples in JSON files
+if [ "$(ls $THIS_DIR/../$JSON_DIR/*.json 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+    for f in $THIS_DIR/../$JSON_DIR/*.json; do
+        check_schema $f
+        echo ""
+        check_model $f
+        echo ""
+        check_spdx $f
+        echo ""
+    done
+fi
+
+# Check examples in inline code snippets in Markdown files
+TEMP=$(mktemp -d)
+for f in $THIS_DIR/../$MD_DIR/*.md; do
+    if ! grep -q '^```json' $f; then
+        continue
+    fi
+    echo "Extract snippets from $f"
+    DEST=$TEMP/$(basename $f)
+    mkdir -p $DEST
+
+    # Read inline code snippets and save them in separate, numbered files.
+    cat $f | awk -v DEST="$DEST" 'BEGIN{flag=0} /^```json/, $0=="```" { if (/^---$/){flag++} else if ($0 !~ /^```.*/ ) print $0 > DEST "/doc-" flag ".spdx.json"}'
+
+    # Combine all JSON code snippets into a single file, with SPDX context and creation info.
+    COMBINED_JSON = $DEST/__combined.json
+    echo "[" > $COMBINED_JSON
+
+    for doc in $DEST/*.spdx.json; do
+        if ! grep -q '@context' $doc; then
+            mv $doc $doc.fragment
+            cat >> $doc <<HEREDOC
+{
+    "@context": "$CONTEXT_URL",
+    "@graph": [
+HEREDOC
+            cat $doc.fragment >> $doc
+            cat >> $doc <<HEREDOC
+        {
+            "type": "CreationInfo",
+            "@id": "_:creationInfo",
+            "specVersion": "$SPDX_VERSION",
+            "created": "2024-04-23T00:00:00Z",
+            "createdBy": [
+                {
+                    "type": "Agent",
+                    "spdxId": "http://spdx.dev/dummy-agent",
+                    "creationInfo": "_:creationInfo"
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+    ]
+}
+HEREDOC
+        fi
+        check_schema $doc
+        cat $doc >> $COMBINED_JSON
+        echo "," >> $COMBINED_JSON
+    done
+
+    echo "{}]" >> $COMBINED_JSON
+
+    check_model $COMBINED_JSON
+    echo ""
+    check_spdx $COMBINED_JSON
+    echo ""
+done