Re: Google Summer of Code -- 3 Org projects for our first participation!

[Neil Smithline <emacs-orgmode@neilsmithline.com>]

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 On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> One thing to be aware of: there is an ongoing work by Nicolas to write a
> parser (see org-element.el in contrib/lisp/ from the git repo).  It is
> already quite useful -- and used in the new exporters (e.g. org-e-latex.el)
>
> One nice side-effect of having this parser is that we will be able to
> document the syntax of Org files more clearly.  Actually, org-element.el
> *is* such a description, but we need to make it widely available as a
> documentation page (on Worg).
>

Bastien,

I've looked at org-element.el and don't really see how it will make writing
other Org Mode to HTML converter easier. org-element.el is, well it's
elisp. Very elispy. No surprise but I'm not sure that it can easily be
converted to another language.

Is Nicolas working from a grammar? I think an Org Mode grammar will make
writing parsers much easier. Perhaps I'm just old-school but I think that
generating an Org Mode to HTML converter in another language would be
dramatically simplified by an Org Mode grammar semantic annotations.

Neil

PS: I've been looking at Org Mode utilities in various languages and none
of them seem to handle any sizable portion of Org Mode to HTML conversion.
It seems that there is little for us to use as a starting point.

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