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From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: parsing formatted text
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:19:20 -0600
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To: Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>
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Hi Aidan,

You could pass the text through the `org-export-string' function to
generate a string of HTML from a string of Org markup.

e.g.

  (org-export-string "plain plain *bold* plain" "html")

returns the following string

  "<p>plain plain <b>bold</b> plain</p>"

-- Eric

Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have written an elisp program to generate an ATOM feed from an
> org-mode file.  I want to generate appropiate HTML from fromatted text
> (such as *bold* and /italic/).  Since it does not use org's export
> module (for which this isn't really appropriate anyway), I have no
> idea if there is any way I can use existing org functions to parse a
> paragraph to recognise formatted text so I can process it
> appropriately, or if I must write my own parsing code.  Can any of the
> more experienced org-mode hackers offer any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Aidan Gauland
>
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