Re: suggestion: "native" orgmode XML export (and import?)

From: Andrew Stribblehill <ads@wompom.org>
To: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion: "native" orgmode XML export (and import?)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:13:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f38ae890908070213x1fabc9e3o75db945d9f86b2fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b11f87e0908062305ue685293m633213469c47d0e8@mail.gmail.com>

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No, EXPERIMENTAL/org-export.el. Here's what I did after M-x load-file
/path/to/org-export.el:

(defun org-export-sexp (arg)
  (interactive "p")
  (let ((bufstr (org-export-parse arg)))
    (save-excursion
      (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Org export*"))
      (erase-buffer)
      (insert (format "%s" bufstr)))))

An org file such as:
----
Objectives

* Q3 2009
    :PROPERTIES:
    :SCORE:    0.77
    :END:
** Operations

*** [#0] Oncall. Keep the site up
*** [#1] Keep the tubes clear.

** Projects
----

comes out as:
((:level 1
  :heading Q3 2009
  :properties ((SCORE . 0.77) (CATEGORY . proj-sanitised))
  :content :subtree
  ((:level 2
    :heading Operations
    :properties ((CATEGORY . proj-sanitised))
    :content :subtree
    ((:level 3
      :heading Oncall. Keep the site up
      :properties ((PRIORITY . 0) (CATEGORY . proj-sanitised))
      :content  :subtree nil)
     (:level 3
      :heading Keep the tubes clear.
      :properties ((PRIORITY . 1) (CATEGORY . proj-sanitised))
      :content :subtree nil)))
   (:level 2
    :heading Projects
    :properties ((CATEGORY . proj-sanitised))
    :content :subtree nil))))

2009/8/7 Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>:
> Thanks for the pointer.   Did you mean org-exp.el?   How exactly do I
> get the internal representation?
> thanks,
> ilya
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Andrew Stribblehill<ads@wompom.org> wrote:
>> I notice the experimental org-export.el contains an internal representation.
>> It would probably be very easy for your python to parse the lisp
>> s-expression it uses, if it were exported.
>>
>> On Aug 6, 2009 3:55 PM, "Ilya Shlyakhter" <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not an emacs-lisp programmer, but I'd like to write scripts
>> (ideally in Python) to generate custom reports from my .org files.
>> What would help a lot, is if there was a command to export an .org
>> file to a "native" XML format that would mirror the org file's
>> structure and all its logical elements (tags, properties, drawers,
>> dates etc).   I know about the DocBook exporter, but it maps orgmode's
>> concepts onto DocBook concepts such as articles.   I'm a longtime
>> orgmode user and it would be much simpler to write a program in terms
>> of the familiar org concepts (hierarchical entries, tags, properties
>> etc).
>> It would also be great if there was a way to import such an XML file
>> back into org.  Then one could e.g. take Toodledo.com tasks and
>> transform them into an orgmode file.
>>
>> There is an orgmode Python reader at
>> http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgnode.html
>> and I plan to use that for now.  But it doesn't support all orgmode
>> features, and more importantly it does its own parsing of orgfiles (so
>> may not keep up with any future changes).   Using orgmode's own
>> parser, and then exporting the results as XML, would be much more
>> reliable.
>>
>> ilya
>>
>>
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