From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: suggestion: "native" orgmode XML export (and import?)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:54:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b11f87e0908060754o7601aeb1uf9b8cebf44c29a24@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2009-08-06 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-06 14:54 Ilya Shlyakhter [this message]
[not found] ` <1f38ae890908061457m7350ecfdw566e7ce9adc6f06e@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-06 21:58 ` suggestion: "native" orgmode XML export (and import?) 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
2009-08-09 14:14 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2009-08-09 17:00 ` Sebastian Rose
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