diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 687d5e6..040c296 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## @i-vresse/wb-core 1.2.3 - 2024-02-02
+
+### Changed
+
+* Export more workflow parsing and validation methods
+
 ## @i-vresse/wb-core 1.2.2 - 2024-01-25
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
index d15ceb2..c3543b6 100644
--- a/packages/core/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@i-vresse/wb-core",
-  "version": "1.2.2",
+  "version": "1.2.3",
   "description": "React components to construct a workflow builder application",
   "keywords": [
     "react",
diff --git a/packages/core/src/toml.test.ts b/packages/core/src/toml.test.ts
index 9f893dd..32afd61 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/toml.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/toml.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import dedent from 'ts-dedent'
 import { expect, describe, it } from 'vitest'
-import { dedupWorkflow, parseWorkflow, TomlSchemas, workflow2tomltext } from './toml'
+import { dedupWorkflow, parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces, TomlSchemas, workflow2tomltext, tomlstring2table } from './toml'
 import { IParameters } from './types'
 
 describe('workflow2tomltext()', () => {
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ param_C = 33
   })
 })
 
-describe('parseWorkflow()', () => {
+describe('parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces()', () => {
   it('should divide global and module parameters', () => {
     const workflow = `
 myglobalvar = 'something'
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ myglobalvar = 'something'
 foo = 'bar'
 `
     const globalKeys = new Set(['myglobalvar'])
-    const result = parseWorkflow(workflow, globalKeys, {}, {})
+    const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(tomlstring2table(workflow), globalKeys, {}, {})
     const expected = {
       global: {
         myglobalvar: 'something'
@@ -411,7 +411,8 @@ foo = 'bar'
 
 foo = 'fizz'
 `
-    const result = parseWorkflow(workflow, new Set(), {}, {})
+    const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+      tomlstring2table(workflow), new Set(), {}, {})
     const expected = {
       global: {},
       nodes: [
@@ -553,7 +554,7 @@ key8 = [
         id: expect.stringMatching(/\w+/)
       }]
     }
-    const result = parseWorkflow(workflow, new Set(Object.keys(expected.global)), {}, {})
+    const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(tomlstring2table(workflow), new Set(Object.keys(expected.global)), {}, {})
     expect(result).toEqual(expected)
   })
 
@@ -563,7 +564,7 @@ key8 = [
   [[foo]]
   bar = 'fizz'
   `
-      const result = parseWorkflow(workflow, new Set(['foo']), {}, {})
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(tomlstring2table(workflow), new Set(['foo']), {}, {})
       const expected = {
         global: {
           foo: [{
@@ -585,8 +586,8 @@ key8 = [
       }
       const tomSchema4nodes = {}
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(['foo']),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomSchema4nodes
@@ -610,8 +611,8 @@ key8 = [
       }
       const tomlSchema4nodes = {}
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(['foo']),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomlSchema4nodes
@@ -643,8 +644,8 @@ key8 = [
       }
       const tomSchema4nodes = {}
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(['fle']),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomSchema4nodes
@@ -693,8 +694,8 @@ key8 = [
       }
       const tomSchema4nodes = {}
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(['mol']),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomSchema4nodes
@@ -737,8 +738,8 @@ key8 = [
       }
       const tomSchema4nodes = {}
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(['mol']),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomSchema4nodes
@@ -774,8 +775,8 @@ key8 = [
         }
       }
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomSchema4nodes
@@ -809,8 +810,8 @@ key8 = [
       }
       const tomSchema4nodes = {}
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(['fle']),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomSchema4nodes
@@ -848,8 +849,8 @@ key8 = [
       }
       const tomlSchema4nodes = {}
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(['foo']),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomlSchema4nodes
@@ -870,7 +871,7 @@ key8 = [
   [[somenode.foo]]
   bar = 'fizz'
   `
-      const result = parseWorkflow(workflow, new Set(), {}, {})
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(tomlstring2table(workflow), new Set(), {}, {})
       const expected = {
         global: {},
         nodes: [{
@@ -899,8 +900,8 @@ key8 = [
         }
       }
 
-      const result = parseWorkflow(
-        workflow,
+      const result = parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+        tomlstring2table(workflow),
         new Set(),
         tomlSchema4global,
         tomSchema4nodes
diff --git a/packages/core/src/toml.ts b/packages/core/src/toml.ts
index 0e4676a..491981a 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/toml.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/toml.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { isObject } from './utils/isObject'
 import { IWorkflowNode, IParameters, IWorkflow, TomlObjectSchema, ICatalog } from './types'
 import { mergeHeader, splitHeader } from './dsv'
 import { nanoid } from 'nanoid'
+import { globalParameterKeys } from './catalog'
 
 export interface TomlSchemas {
   nodes: Record<string, TomlObjectSchema>
@@ -186,9 +187,24 @@ function toml2parameters (tomledParameters: IParameters, tomlSchema: TomlObjectS
   return parameters
 }
 
-export function parseWorkflow (workflow: string, globalKeys: Set<string>, tomlSchema4global: TomlObjectSchema, tomSchema4nodes: Record<string, TomlObjectSchema>): IWorkflow {
+export function parseWorkflow (workflow: string,
+  catalog: ICatalog): IWorkflow {
+  const table = tomlstring2table(workflow)
+  return parseWorkflowFromTable(table, catalog)
+}
+
+export function tomlstring2table (workflow: string): ReturnType<typeof parse> {
   const deduppedWorkflow = dedupWorkflow(workflow)
   const table = parse(deduppedWorkflow, { bigint: false })
+  return table
+}
+
+export function parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces (
+  table: ReturnType<typeof parse>,
+  globalKeys: Set<string>,
+  tomlSchema4global: TomlObjectSchema,
+  tomSchema4nodes: Record<string, TomlObjectSchema>
+): IWorkflow {
   const global: IParameters = {}
   const nodes: IWorkflowNode[] = []
   const sectionwithindex = /\.?\d+$/
@@ -213,6 +229,24 @@ export function parseWorkflow (workflow: string, globalKeys: Set<string>, tomlSc
   }
 }
 
+export function parseWorkflowFromTable (
+  table: ReturnType<typeof parse>,
+  catalog: ICatalog
+): IWorkflow {
+  const globalKeys = globalParameterKeys(catalog.global)
+  const tomlSchema4global = catalog.global.tomlSchema ?? {}
+  const tomSchema4nodes = Object.fromEntries(catalog.nodes.map(
+    n => [n.id, n.tomlSchema !== undefined ? n.tomlSchema : {}])
+  )
+  return parseWorkflowByCatalogPieces(
+    table,
+    globalKeys,
+    tomlSchema4global,
+    tomSchema4nodes
+
+  )
+}
+
 /**
  * Adds index to every repeated header
  */
diff --git a/packages/core/src/workflow.ts b/packages/core/src/workflow.ts
index 9d415c2..5ace7f0 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/workflow.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/workflow.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { readArchive } from './archive'
-import { globalParameterKeys } from './catalog'
 import { parseWorkflow } from './toml'
 import { ICatalog, IFiles, IParameters, IWorkflow, IWorkflowNode } from './types'
 import { walk } from './utils/searchreplace'
@@ -11,31 +10,14 @@ export interface ILoadedworkflow extends IWorkflow {
 
 export async function loadWorkflowArchive (archiveURL: string, catalog: ICatalog): Promise<ILoadedworkflow> {
   const { tomlstring, files } = await readArchive(archiveURL)
-  const globalKeys = globalParameterKeys(catalog.global)
-  const tomlSchema4global = catalog.global.tomlSchema ?? {}
-  const tomSchema4nodes = Object.fromEntries(catalog.nodes.map(
-    n => [n.id, n.tomlSchema !== undefined ? n.tomlSchema : {}])
-  )
-  const { nodes, global } = parseWorkflow(
-    tomlstring, globalKeys, tomlSchema4global, tomSchema4nodes
-  )
-  const errors = await validateWorkflow(
-    {
-      global,
-      nodes
-    }, {
-      global: catalog.global,
-      nodes: catalog.nodes
-    },
-    files
-  )
+  const workflow = parseWorkflow(tomlstring, catalog)
+  const errors = await validateWorkflow(workflow, catalog, files)
   if (errors.length > 0) {
     console.error(errors)
     throw new ValidationError('Invalid workflow loaded', errors)
   }
   return {
-    global,
-    nodes,
+    ...workflow,
     files
   }
 }