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From: B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>
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: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:19:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28c656e20908090619r3ee89747we76b6d540b68cf95@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b11f87e0908081325h6d3ec469id91fcdb739f5a201@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 22:25, Ilya Shlyakhter<ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> In the meantime, it would be useful to describe what kind of XML output
>> do you want, because "XML" does not really describe anything per se.
>
> I'm looking for XML output that would closely mirror the logical
> structure of the org file, and that would contain all the information
> in the orgfile (since it's easy to ignore the parts you don't need
> during XML processing).  So, something like
>
> <orgfile>
>   <entry>
>      <headline>Tasks</headline>
>      <body>Here are the tasks I need to do</body>
>      <children>
>          <entry>
>             <headline>Buy bread</headline>
>             <todo-status>DONE</todo-status>
>             <tags><tag>food</tag><tag>errands</tag></tags>
>             <properties>
>                 <property><name>Importance</name><value>1</value></property>
>
> <property><name>Deadline</name><value><date><day>07</day><month>08</month><year>09</year></date></value></property>
>             </properties>
>           </entry>
>        </children>
>      </entry>
>   </orgfile>
>
> The details of the XML schema can of course change.   But it should
> let you process org file data without having to parse any elements of
> the org file (ideally, even dates) -- it would all be parsed by
> orgmode's native parsing code and put into XML elements.
>
> If there are questions about how to represent specific org elements in
> XML I can try to write a more detailed spec.
>

Out of curiosity, how would you want to handle textual content? Pass
it through unchanged with org's wiki-like markup in tact, or somehow
xml-ified?:

*foo* --> *foo*
*foo* --> <strong>foo</strong>

// Ben

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-09 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-06 14:54 suggestion: "native" orgmode XML export (and import?) Ilya Shlyakhter
     [not found] ` <1f38ae890908061457m7350ecfdw566e7ce9adc6f06e@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-06 21:58   ` Andrew Stribblehill
     [not found]     ` <4b11f87e0908062305ue685293m633213469c47d0e8@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-07  9:13       ` Andrew Stribblehill
2009-08-07  9:46         ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2009-08-07 11:44           ` David Bremner
2009-08-08  5:48           ` Bastien
2009-08-08 20:25             ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2009-08-09 13:19               ` B Smith-Mannschott [this message]
2009-08-09 14:14                 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2009-08-09 17:00               ` Sebastian Rose

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