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"Pete Bataleck" <bataleck@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to update an orgmode document programatically.
>
> I can create an AST from a buffer using org-element-parse-buffer, but
> how do I do the reverse and output the modified AST to a buffer?

I think `org-element-interpret-data' is the function you're looking for.
Take a look at the source in org-element.el -- that ought to do it.