From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org to lisp
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:47:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6DAFFDEE-D941-4C33-82E7-D774A064B35D@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080723190902.GA6797@stats.ox.ac.uk>
On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Dan Davison wrote:
> Is there an existing function that will convert an org syntax buffer
> into a corresponding (recursive) lisp data structure? (preserving all
> the metadata of each heading in some way?)
Well, not part of the Org core yet, but still distributed in the git
repo.
It is org-export-parse in EXPERIMENTAL/org-export.el
> I guess I'm thinking of
> structs in C, but is this a natural thing to do in lisp? I think the
> existence of such code might have been mentioned in Carsten's talk. If
> so, then my second question is whether there's a recursive 'mapping'
> function, to apply a function at each node of such a tree (and return
> some recursive structure containing the results of those function
> calls) (R users: I mean like rapply and dendrapply).
No, that does not exist, but it wold not be hard to write one that
uses the structure returned by org-export-parse.
> My understanding
> is that org-map-entries returns a flat, rather than a recursive, list,
> and that it doesn't create a recursive representation of the buffer in
> memory.
That is correct.
HTH
- Carsten
> But if it's the case that I simply haven't tried hard enough
> to understand the code, please just say so! My current motivation is
> to create a directory/filesystem tree corresponding to the org
> tree. But I don't want to try to write an org-buffer traversal
> function if there's existing code written by non-beginners.
>
> DAn
>
>
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2008-07-23 19:09 org to lisp Dan Davison
2008-07-23 20:18 ` Manish
2008-07-23 20:47 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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