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Ah, understood! CSV is funny, it seems like a more trivial thing than it really is, and its human readability sort of invites broken approaches in a way that something like Parquet would not.

XML is somewhere in the middle--I've seen some horrible abuses of CDATA sections way back when--but at least there are accepted ways to prove what's invalid.



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