Re: excluding whole trees on export when subtrees have "select" tags present

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

This does not sound right to me.

This org file:

#+BEGIN_SRC org
,#+select_tags: wanted
,#+exclude_tags: notwanted

,* headline                                                        :notwanted:
  some text

,** subhead 1
,** subhead2                                                          :wanted:
  more text
#+END_SRC

should not have any thing to export.

In contrast:

#+BEGIN_SRC org
,#+select_tags: wanted
,#+exclude_tags: notwanted
,* headline                                                        :wanted:
  some text

,** subhead 1
,** subhead2                                                          :notwanted:
  more text

#+END_SRC

will export headline and subhead1.

At least, that is what I see.

Eric S Fraga writes:

> On Monday,  9 Jan 2017 at 15:46, John Kitchin wrote:
>> Based on the docstrings for org-export-select-tags and
>> org-export-exclude-tags, this looks expected.
>>
>> It does not look possible to exclude a heading and include a subheading
>> under it. It is possible to include a heading and exclude some
>> subheadings though you need a wanted tag in the parent, and notwanted
>> tags in the subtrees, and to declare the exclude tags.
>
> I think I was unclear.  My confusion is that a tree (rooted at a top
> level headline) that I do not want exported is nevertheless exported if
> a subtree within that tree has a "selected" tag.  I would have thought
> the higher level heading would take precedence.
>
>> I am surprised you can use comment like this. It looks to me like
>> commenting a tree makes all the subtrees in it not export too.
>
> Yes, it is.  Again, I obviously didn't explain myself well.  I have
> resorted to commenting out whole trees (rooted at headlines) to avoid
> them being exported because a sub-tree has the selected tag.
>
> In any case, I have found a workaround by inverting my tag usage.
>
> thanks,
> eric


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