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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next prev parent 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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