New Heading Parsing and org-vcard

New Heading Parsing and org-vcard

[Jonas Damm]

Reading here: https://orgmode.org/Changes.html makes me believe breaking
changes in orgmode made the seemingly unmaintained org-vcard package not
work anymore.

> Internal structure of Org parse tree has been changed
> 
> The code relying upon the previously used (TYPE PROPERTIES-PLIST
> CONTENTS-LIST) structure may no longer work. Please use
> org-element-create, org-element-property, and other Org element API
> functions to work with Org syntax trees.
> 
> Some syntax node properties are no longer stored as property list
> elements. Instead, they are kept in a special vector value of a new
> :standard-properties property. This is done to improve performance.
> 
> If there is a need to traverse all the node properties, a new API
> function org-element-properties-map can be used.
> 
> Properties and their values can now be deferred to avoid overheads when
> parsing. They are calculated lazily, when the value/property is
> requested by org-element-property and other getter functions. Using
> plist-get to retrieve values of PROPERTIES-PLIST is not recommended as
> deferred properties will not be resolved in such scenario.
> 
> New special property :secondary is used internally to record which
> properties store secondary objects.
> 
> New special property :deferred is used to keep information how to
> calculate property names lazily.
> 
> See the commentary in lisp/org-element-ast.el for more details.

I tried to modify the org-vcard package, but this is beyond my
capabillities.


So my question is: Can I maybe downgrade orgmode or restore the old
method of parsing some other way? I relied on org-vcard pretty
heavily. I hope I can find a way to keep using it.

Thanks!
Jonas

Re: New Heading Parsing and org-vcard

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jonas Damm <mailing@jonas-damm.de> writes:

> Reading here: https://orgmode.org/Changes.html makes me believe breaking
> changes in orgmode made the seemingly unmaintained org-vcard package not
> work anymore.

AFAIK, org-vcard is maintained at https://github.com/pinoaffe/org-vcard

> So my question is: Can I maybe downgrade orgmode or restore the old
> method of parsing some other way? I relied on org-vcard pretty
> heavily. I hope I can find a way to keep using it.

It might be enough to replace plist-get with org-element-property calls.

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