Data & Parsing guides.

Data becomes useful when its structure and meaning survive the handoff. Parsing, validation, and export design are related stages, but each answers a different question. These guides explain how to extract intended values, represent uncertainty, and produce files that another tool can interpret.

Start by defining the receiving system and the fields it needs. Then choose an appropriate parser, make missing values explicit, and validate representative examples. For exports, test the actual consumer as well as the file syntax. A successful parse does not establish that the content is correct, and a file that opens can still lose precision or alter identifiers. The articles below turn those distinctions into concrete review questions and useful workflow boundaries.