Re: [ELPA] New package: jami-bot and org-jami-bot

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> If someone writes a parser that can understand alternative, non-Org
>> markup of source files, and produce org-element-ast.el-compatible list
>> structure, most of the ox-* exporters should remain functional.
>
> It would be better to allow alternative data structures to be input to
> the export functionality, rather than expect other features to mimic
> the Org parser and its outputs.

One way or another, there should be some structure to the parser output.
Org parser output is just a nested list.
org-element-ast.el defines the details of what can be inside that list -
independent of the details of Org markup, and compatible with the
existing ox-* implementations.

Moving away from the nested list is not feasible. Not unless you also
want to force all the third-party ox-* libraries to be rewritten or
remain incompatible.

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