diff --git a/.changeset/modern-hats-admire.md b/.changeset/modern-hats-admire.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..62db1223c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/modern-hats-admire.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+"@ui5-language-assistant/xml-views-validation": patch
+"@ui5-language-assistant/fe": patch
+"vscode-ui5-language-assistant": patch
+"@ui5-language-assistant/vscode-ui5-language-assistant-bas-ext": patch
+---
+
+Avoid type casting
diff --git a/packages/fe/test/services/utils.ts b/packages/fe/test/services/utils.ts
index a52fa8f1d..1608f7939 100644
--- a/packages/fe/test/services/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/fe/test/services/utils.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 import { AnnotationIssue, getCompletionItems } from "../../src/api";
 import { CompletionItem } from "vscode-languageserver-types";
 import { TestFramework } from "@ui5-language-assistant/test-framework";
-import { getContext } from "@ui5-language-assistant/context";
+import { getContext, isContext } from "@ui5-language-assistant/context";
 import type { Context } from "@ui5-language-assistant/context";
-import { validateXMLView } from "@ui5-language-assistant/xml-views-validation";
+import {
+  UI5XMLViewIssue,
+  validateXMLView,
+} from "@ui5-language-assistant/xml-views-validation";
 
 import { CURSOR_ANCHOR } from "@ui5-language-assistant/test-framework";
 import { XMLAttribute } from "@xml-tools/ast";
@@ -16,7 +19,9 @@ export const completionItemToSnapshot = (item: CompletionItem): string =>
     item.sortText ? item.sortText[0] : ""
   }`;
 
-export const issueToSnapshot = (item: AnnotationIssue): string =>
+export const issueToSnapshot = (
+  item: AnnotationIssue | UI5XMLViewIssue
+): string =>
   `kind: ${item.kind}; text: ${item.message}; severity:${item.severity}; offset:${item.offsetRange.start}-${item.offsetRange.end}`;
 
 export type ViewCompletionProviderType = (
@@ -53,17 +58,18 @@ export const getViewCompletionProvider = (
       content,
       offset
     );
-    const context = (await getContext(documentPath)) as Context;
-
-    result = getCompletionItems({
-      ast,
-      context: contextAdapter ? contextAdapter(context) : context,
-      cst,
-      document,
-      documentSettings: settings,
-      textDocumentPosition,
-      tokenVector,
-    });
+    const context = await getContext(documentPath);
+    if (isContext(context)) {
+      result = getCompletionItems({
+        ast,
+        context: contextAdapter ? contextAdapter(context) : context,
+        cst,
+        document,
+        documentSettings: settings,
+        textDocumentPosition,
+        tokenVector,
+      });
+    }
   } finally {
     // reversal update
     await framework.updateFileContent(viewFilePathSegments, "", {
@@ -103,16 +109,18 @@ export const getViewValidator = (
       insertAfter: "<content>",
     });
     const { ast } = await framework.readFile(viewFilePathSegments);
-    const context = (await getContext(documentPath)) as Context;
-    result = validateXMLView({
-      validators: {
-        attribute: [validator],
-        document: [],
-        element: [],
-      },
-      context: contextAdapter ? contextAdapter(context) : context,
-      xmlView: ast,
-    }) as AnnotationIssue[];
+    const context = await getContext(documentPath);
+    if (isContext(context)) {
+      result = validateXMLView({
+        validators: {
+          attribute: [validator],
+          document: [],
+          element: [],
+        },
+        context: contextAdapter ? contextAdapter(context) : context,
+        xmlView: ast,
+      });
+    }
   } finally {
     // reversal update
     await framework.updateFileContent(viewFilePathSegments, "", {
diff --git a/packages/xml-views-validation/api.d.ts b/packages/xml-views-validation/api.d.ts
index e3826ca75..4269b04af 100644
--- a/packages/xml-views-validation/api.d.ts
+++ b/packages/xml-views-validation/api.d.ts
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ import { OffsetRange } from "@ui5-language-assistant/logic-utils";
 import { UI5ValidatorsConfig } from "./src/validate-xml-views";
 import { Context } from "@ui5-language-assistant/context";
 
-export function validateXMLView<ExternalXMLViewIssue>(opts: {
-  validators: UI5ValidatorsConfig<UI5XMLViewIssue | ExternalXMLViewIssue>;
+export function validateXMLView<T = UI5XMLViewIssue>(opts: {
+  validators: UI5ValidatorsConfig<T>;
   context: Context;
   xmlView: XMLDocument;
-}): (UI5XMLViewIssue | ExternalXMLViewIssue)[];
+}): T[];
 
 export declare const defaultValidators: UI5ValidatorsConfig;
 
diff --git a/packages/xml-views-validation/src/api.ts b/packages/xml-views-validation/src/api.ts
index 10f42e98b..78e0679a5 100644
--- a/packages/xml-views-validation/src/api.ts
+++ b/packages/xml-views-validation/src/api.ts
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ export const validators: Validators = {
   validateNonStableId,
 };
 
-export function validateXMLView<ExternalXMLViewIssue>(opts: {
-  validators: UI5ValidatorsConfig<UI5XMLViewIssue | ExternalXMLViewIssue>;
+export function validateXMLView<T = UI5XMLViewIssue>(opts: {
+  validators: UI5ValidatorsConfig<T>;
   context: Context;
   xmlView: XMLDocument;
-}): (UI5XMLViewIssue | ExternalXMLViewIssue)[] {
+}): T[] {
   const validatorVisitor = new ValidatorVisitor(opts.context, opts.validators);
   accept(opts.xmlView, validatorVisitor);
   const issues = validatorVisitor.collectedIssues;