def METHOD_NAME(values: Iterable[str]) -> Iterable[str]:
    """Validate component attributes provided to "assigns", "requires" etc.
    Raises error for invalid attributes and formatting. Doesn't check if
    custom extension attributes are registered, since this is something the
    user might want to do themselves later in the component.
    values (Iterable[str]): The string attributes to check, e.g. `["token.pos"]`.
    RETURNS (Iterable[str]): The checked attributes.
    """
    data = dot_to_dict({value: True for value in values})
    objs = {"doc": Doc, "token": Token, "span": Span}
    for obj_key, attrs in data.items():
        if obj_key == "span":
            # Support Span only for custom extension attributes
            span_attrs = [attr for attr in values if attr.startswith("span.")]
            span_attrs = [attr for attr in span_attrs if not attr.startswith("span._.")]
            if span_attrs:
                raise ValueError(Errors.E180.format(attrs=", ".join(span_attrs)))
        if obj_key not in objs:  # first element is not doc/token/span
            invalid_attrs = ", ".join(a for a in values if a.startswith(obj_key))
            raise ValueError(Errors.E181.format(obj=obj_key, attrs=invalid_attrs))
        if not isinstance(attrs, dict):  # attr is something like "doc"
            raise ValueError(Errors.E182.format(attr=obj_key))
        for attr, value in attrs.items():
            if attr == "_":
                if value is True:  # attr is something like "doc._"
                    raise ValueError(Errors.E182.format(attr="{}._".format(obj_key)))
                for ext_attr, ext_value in value.items():
                    # We don't check whether the attribute actually exists
                    if ext_value is not True:  # attr is something like doc._.x.y
                        good = f"{obj_key}._.{ext_attr}"
                        bad = f"{good}.{'.'.join(ext_value)}"
                        raise ValueError(Errors.E183.format(attr=bad, solution=good))
                continue  # we can't validate those further
            if attr.endswith("_"):  # attr is something like "token.pos_"
                raise ValueError(Errors.E184.format(attr=attr, solution=attr[:-1]))
            if value is not True:  # attr is something like doc.x.y
                good = f"{obj_key}.{attr}"
                bad = f"{good}.{'.'.join(value)}"
                raise ValueError(Errors.E183.format(attr=bad, solution=good))
            obj = objs[obj_key]
            if not hasattr(obj, attr):
                raise ValueError(Errors.E185.format(obj=obj_key, attr=attr))
    return values