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From: Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Exporter] Export of property drawers
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:14:49 +0200
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Cc: Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Hello Nicolas,

thank you for the clarification and examples, they helped a lot and I
got it working as I wanted it. 

Regards,
Alex

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> i want to export property drawers of an org-file to ASCII.  How do I do
>> this?  I got the impression, that the exporter does not touch the
>> properties drawers.  So I started to fiddle with the exporter but got no
>> satisfying results out of it.
>
> You can either define a new back-end, as you did, or defadvice the
> current one.
>>
>> This is what i tried so far:
>>
>> The elisp i wrote in this process:
>> ===============================================================================
>> (defun org-tut-ascii-translater-property-drawer (drawer backend info)
>>   (let ((prop (org-element-property :properties drawer)))
>>     (format "%S" prop))) ;; i just wanted to see, if anything arrives
>> here
>
> There is no `:properties' attribute for property drawers. Also you are
> mixing translators and filters: arguments for translators are ELEMENT
> CONTENTS INFO. Use, for example:
>
>  (defun my-ascii-property-drawer (drawer contents info)
>    contents)
>
>
>> (org-export-define-derived-backend 'my-ascii 'ascii
>>   :translate-alist '((template .
>>                       org-tut-ascii-translater-property-drawer)))
>
> Replace `template' with `property-drawer'. You also need to define
> a translator for `node-property' elements, e.g.,
>
>   (defun my-ascii-node-property (node-prop contents info)
>     (concat (org-element-property :key node-prop)
>             ": "
>             (org-element-property :value node-prop)))
>
> and
>
>   (org-export-define-derived-backend 'my-ascii 'ascii
>     :translate-alist '((property-drawer . my-ascii-property-drawer)
>                        (node-property . my-ascii-node-property)))
>
>
> Regards,