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From: Simon Castellan <simon.castellan@iuwt.fr>
Subject: Re: mlorg : yet another parser for org-mode (Written in OCaml
 contained in org-mode files)
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On lun. 27/f=C3=A9vr. (09:52), Eric Schulte wrote:
> Simon Castellan <simon.castellan@iuwt.fr> writes:
>=20
> > On lun. 27/f=C3=A9vr. (15:27), Alan Schmitt wrote:
> >> On 26 f=C3=A9vr. 2012, at 17:41, Simon Castellan wrote:
> >>=20
> >> > I have been writing a parser for mlorg files in OCaml. This starte=
d as an
> >> > experiment to see if the literate programming mode of org-mode cou=
ld scale to a
> >> > full application (among other things).
> >>=20
> >> This looks very interesting, and would very much help in the
> >> dissemination of org-mode. Have you thought of announcing it on the
> >> caml mailing list?
> >>=20
> >> Alan
> >
> > I have but prefer to wait mlorg to be more complete. This post was me=
ant mainly
> > to gather info/document about org's syntax. (But as I said feedbacks =
welcome.)
> >
>=20
> Hi Simon,
>=20
> Nicolas Goaziou has been working recently on a new emacs-lisp parser of
> Org-mode files, with the goals of
> 1. standardizing the formal syntax of Org-mode files
> 2. parsing Org-mode files to a canonical emacs-lisp list-based
>    representation in memory (like an Org-mode AST)
> 3. re-basing the existing Org-mode exporters off of this canonical
>    representation
>=20
> This work is contained in contrib/lisp/org-element.el, which includes a
> large amount of useful commentary at the top of the file.  This should
> serve as a starting point for learning more about the formal syntax of
> Org-mode files (as it is defined).  I think that developing parsers for
> this syntax in multiple language should be very useful to ensure that a
> usable syntax is developed separate from any particular implementation.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20

Thank you very much for this pointer, This is what I was looking for : a =
list of
syntaxic construction in org-mode. I'd say though that it lacks a more-or=
-less
formal syntaxic definition of constructions.

Simon.