Re: XOXO output

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Apr 3, 2006, at 14:53, Nic wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> Nic,
>>
>> if it is OK, I am going to include the XOXO exporter in the next test
>> release of Org-mode.
>
> You may as well go ahead. I'll try and find time to update it to
> include all the rest of org-modes output options.

One immediate thing I see now is that I don't think the code will work 
correctly when the outline jumst levels (for example, going from a 
level 2 to a level 4 and back again.  Looking at the code I think in 
this case it will only start one new outline level, but close two of 
them.

Another issue is that I have recently started to make the export an 
two-stage process.  I first copy the entire file to a temporary buffer, 
where I do some kine of preprocessing.  For example I am making all the 
links to use the now standard [[ ]] format, I am preparing the targets, 
and I create links from all matches of radio targets.  Then, in the 
second step I do the exporting.  maybe it would be good to do these 
preparatory steps also before exporting to XOXO?

Finally a question.  You have said at several points that using a 
format like XOXO and do little or now structural analysis of what is in 
the Org-mode file except for looking at the levels is a good thing 
because you can then later use another transformation to do whatever 
you want.  But I guess that transformation code would actually have to 
be custom written and understand all of the properties of Org-mode 
files.  So I am still wondering if it would be useful to have ev 
erything that is Org-mode specific translated into something more 
general.

- Carsten