diff --git a/lib/src/core/content_serdes.dart b/lib/src/core/content_serdes.dart
index 814ef3f9..3eaf7565 100644
--- a/lib/src/core/content_serdes.dart
+++ b/lib/src/core/content_serdes.dart
@@ -140,12 +140,19 @@ class ContentSerdes {
   }
 
   void _validateValue(Object? value, DataSchema? dataSchema) {
-    final dataSchemaJson = dataSchema?.rawJson;
-    if (dataSchemaJson == null) {
+    // TODO(JKRhb): The process of validating values according to a dataschema
+    //              needs to be reworked.
+    const filteredKeys = ['uriVariables'];
+
+    final filteredDataSchemaJson = dataSchema?.rawJson?.entries
+        .where((element) => !filteredKeys.contains(element.key));
+    if (filteredDataSchemaJson == null) {
       return;
     }
-    final schema =
-        JsonSchema.create(dataSchemaJson, schemaVersion: SchemaVersion.draft7);
+    final schema = JsonSchema.create(
+      Map.fromEntries(filteredDataSchemaJson),
+      schemaVersion: SchemaVersion.draft7,
+    );
     if (!schema.validate(value).isValid) {
       throw ContentSerdesException('JSON Schema validation failed.');
     }
diff --git a/lib/src/definitions/form.dart b/lib/src/definitions/form.dart
index df164a18..ba640aae 100644
--- a/lib/src/definitions/form.dart
+++ b/lib/src/definitions/form.dart
@@ -318,34 +318,23 @@ class Form {
       return null;
     }
 
-    if (affordanceUriVariables.isEmpty) {
-      throw UriVariableException(
-        'The Form href $href contains URI '
-        'variables but the TD does not provide a uriVariables definition.',
+    if (uriVariables != null) {
+      // Perform additional validation
+      _validateUriVariables(
+        hrefUriVariables,
+        affordanceUriVariables,
+        uriVariables,
       );
     }
 
-    if (uriVariables == null) {
-      throw ValidationException(
-        'The Form href $href contains URI variables '
-        'but no values were provided as InteractionOptions.',
-      );
-    }
-
-    // Perform additional validation
-    _validateUriVariables(
-      hrefUriVariables,
-      affordanceUriVariables,
-      uriVariables,
-    );
-
     // As "{" and "}" are "percent encoded" due to Uri.parse(), we need to
     // revert the encoding first before we can insert the values.
     final decodedHref = Uri.decodeFull(href.toString());
 
     // Everything should be okay at this point, we can simply insert the values
     // and return the result.
-    final newHref = Uri.parse(UriTemplate(decodedHref).expand(uriVariables));
+    final newHref =
+        Uri.parse(UriTemplate(decodedHref).expand(uriVariables ?? {}));
     return _copy(newHref);
   }
 }