Re: Programmatically constructing org documents

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Cool, thanks for the tip.

So, you can build a table like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(org-element--interpret-data-1
 '((table (:caption (((("Some interesting thing."))))) (table-row '()
			 (table-cell '() ("5"))
			 (table-cell '() ("6")))
	  (table-row '()
		     (table-cell '() ("6"))
		     (table-cell '() ("7")))))
 nil)
#+END_SRC

that is sure to be handy one day ;)


Charles C. Berry writes:

> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, John Kitchin wrote:
>
>> After some more thought, I am not sure it is possible to setup just a
>> parse tree for this. It works ok for src blocks, e.g.
>>
> [deleted]
>
>> On the other hand, it isn't clear how to use this to make a table.
>>
>> e.g. this table:
>>
>> | 5 | 6 |
>> | 6 | 7 |
>>
>> was represented as an element like this.
>>
>> (table
>> (:begin 5133 :end 5154 :type org :tblfm nil :contents-begin 5133 :contents-end 5153 :value nil :post-blank 1 :post-affiliated 5133 :parent nil))
>>
>> There is no data in that representation, just points in the buffer where
>> the data is. Does anyone know how to do this?
>
>
> Use (org-element-parse-buffer) to get the table-row and table-cell elements, too.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> | 5 | 6 |
> | 6 | 7 |
>
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>    (org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer) 'table-cell 'cddr)
> #+END_SRC
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Chuck


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