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> How about documenting what pcb currently does, and what
> transformation is required to transform a conforming instance to the
> present reality?

If I decide I want to work on documentation, there are many other
things that are more important that this.

> Its great to have a spec but I bet 9/10 people that parse .pcb files
> aren't ever looking at it, but just working from the file to do what
> they need.

Given that the file is just a bunch of unlabelled numbers, the only
way to understand it is to read the spec.  So I expect that far more
people read the spec than you think.