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From: Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Announcing my Python module to read org-mode files
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Mark Elston <m.elston <at> advantest-ard.com> writes:
 
> The only thing better would be a way to use this package to
> update the nodes and then write them back out.  Hmmmmm......

The changes to the package to write the node output out are...

1. A means of storing the org-mode preamble .. all the lines before
the first headline.  Maybe this could be in a node with level 0
and headline of null. The bodytext of this object could be
the preamble lines.

2. A method to output a node in ord-mode format echoing the
** prefix, TODO tag, headline, tags, properties and body text.

3. The module currently discards lines beginning with #.
These should now be preserved.

I wouldnt imagine this being a great deal of work.
I will add this to my (very long list) of things to do!