The fix is admittedly quit literally just papering over.
Long-term, I see two more principled approaches:
* we switch to a fully tree-based impl, without parse . to_string
step; with this approach, there shouldn't be any panics. The results
might be nonsensical, but so was the original input.
* we preserve the invariant that re-parsing constructed node is an
identity, and make all the `make_xxx` method return an `Option`.
closes#4044
