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Subject: Re: Canonical way to strip off all markup from an element in Org
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Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks! I feared so. Then the strip-HTML-tags approach seems to be the
> quickest.

You must be kidding. It must be around 8 locs. See for example
`org-export-toc-entry-backend'.

> Would there be an interest to add that to the core something like a "base
> class" of exporter backends?

I fail to see how it could be generally useful.

> "strip off all markup" simply means export something like "*abc* /def/
> =ghi= ~jkl~ +mno+ _pqr_" as "abc def ghi jkl mno pqr". Think of that as a
> backend without even the minimal adornment that ox-ascii has... and
> ox-ascii can be a derived backend from this one.

What are you doing with entities, footnotes, latex-snippets...?