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by kazinator 4126 days ago
> "Unstructured text is ignored; there is no such thing as a parsing error"

That is a naively wrong-headed recipe for problems later down the road. What if structure is mistyped such that it looks like unstructured text?

The format has structure, and consequently, examples of that format can be erroneous. Just because you don't diagnose errors doesn't mean they aren't there.