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From: Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: "Przemysław Kamiński" <pk@intrepidus.pl>,
	Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: official orgmode parser
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:09:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGY83Eeth=MyWNL-4OEVMM=RpKataAXitmz02EYg5WE-d4uqrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915123722.GA20532@tuxteam.de>

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There's also org-ql (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql), which also
provides a query-based API against Org structures.

--Diego


On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 2:59 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:15:56PM +0200, Przemysław Kamiński wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > There's the org-json (or ox-json) package but for some reason I
> > wasn't able to run it successfully. I guess export to S-exps would
> > be best here. But yes I'll check that out.
>
> If that's your route, perhaps the "Org element API" [1] might be
> helpful. Especially `org-element-parse-buffer' gives you a Lisp
> data structure which is supposed to be a parse of your Org buffer.
>
> From there to S-expression can be trivial (e.g. `print' or `pp'),
> depending on what you want to do.
>
> Walking the structure should be nice in Lisp, too.
>
> The topic of (non-Emacs) parsing of Org comes up regularly, and
> there is a good (but AFAIK not-quite-complete) Org syntax spec
> in Worg [2], but there are a couple of difficulties to be mastered
> before such a thing can become really enjoyable and useful.
>
> The loose specification of Org's format (arguably its second
> or third strongest asset, the first two being its incredible
> community and Emacs itself) is something which makes this
> problem "interesting". People have invented lots of usages
> which might be broken should Org change to a strict formal
> spec. You don't want to break those people.
>
> But yes, perhaps some day someone nails it. Perhaps it's you :)
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-element-api.html
> [2] https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html
>
>  - t
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-15  7:58 official orgmode parser Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-15  8:44 ` Gerry Agbobada
2020-09-16 16:36   ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-23  8:09   ` Bastien
2020-09-15  9:03 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-15  9:17   ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-15  9:55     ` Russell Adams
2020-09-15 11:15       ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-15 12:37         ` tomas
2020-09-15 18:09           ` Diego Zamboni [this message]
2020-09-16 12:09           ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-16 12:20             ` tomas
2020-09-16 12:27             ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-16  0:16     ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16  7:24     ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-09-16  7:56       ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-16 11:36         ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-16 12:02           ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-16 12:15             ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-17  1:18               ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-17 15:24                 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-23  8:09 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 17:46   ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-23 19:50     ` rey-coyrehourcq
2020-11-11  8:58       ` Bastien
2020-10-24 21:12   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-10-24 21:35     ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-11  9:13       ` Bastien
2020-11-12 17:14         ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-11  9:15     ` Bastien
2020-11-11 13:05       ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-11-28 19:19       ` Gerry Agbobada
2020-10-26 11:23   ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 14:21     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-10-26 16:17       ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 16:24         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-10-26 16:47           ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 17:59             ` Tom Gillespie
2020-10-26 20:26               ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 21:00                 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-10-26 21:37                   ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 22:19                     ` Tom Gillespie
2020-10-27  5:42                   ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-11-11  8:59             ` Bastien
2020-11-11  9:00         ` Bastien

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