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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Tony Day <tonyday567@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org reserved and special words in drawers
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:00:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj6ofx2r.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21ue9lon4.fsf@gmail.com> (Tony Day's message of "Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:53:35 +1100")

Hi Tony,

Tony Day <tonyday567@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to get my head around what a 'readable exchange format' is.
>
> org-export.el already exports as an elisp list:
>
> M-: (setq my-org-buffer-as-elisp (org-element-parse-buffer)) RTE
>
> ... and it's pretty readable :-)
>
> So the basic idea is that you would export from an org file to an org
> file but one with a /different/ and maybe standardized format (highly
> standardized is the oref gist?).
>
> For example, anything that
> is content passes through as text and everything else (org guff) is put
> into a :PROPERTIES: :END: wrapper?

Yes, why not.  

If people need an exchange format that is based on .org files but
slightly different, org-export.el can certainly help.

>> Maybe you can start working on a org-e-oref exporter, storying *all*
>> metadata into properties? ... Don't know where it will lead, but who
>> knows?
>
> A mission truly beyond my abilities, but how could I say no to such a
> meta org-mode process :-)
>
> Is the right place to start basically turning (org-element-parse-buffer)
> output back into an org buffer?  

I'd say so, but Nicolas might help more here.

> Is this best thought of as another backend? I
> can't quite see why org-e-oref.el and not just org-e-org.el? 

I would first ask myself "what is the new org format for?  
Is it worth implementing this?"

Best,

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-29 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06 13:53 BUG ? [new HTML exporter] subtree: newline and slash Giovanni Ridolfi
2012-11-06 16:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-11-06 17:03   ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2012-11-06 17:20     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-11-07  3:33       ` org reserved and special words in drawers tony day
2012-12-24  1:49         ` Bastien
2012-12-28 23:53           ` Tony Day
2012-12-29 20:00             ` Bastien [this message]
2012-12-31  0:19               ` Tony Day
2012-11-07 12:15       ` solved (Re: BUG ? [new HTML exporter] subtree: newline and slash) Giovanni Ridolfi

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