Thanks Nicolas! John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 11:26 AM Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > John Kitchin writes: > > > In > > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/55231/org-mode-export-html-add-name-attirbute-to-checkbox-input > > > > there was a question about modifying a checkbox export. I wrote an answer > > using a custom translate function in a derived backend, where I could get > > the name of the parent list pretty easily. > > > > It seems like that should also be possible in a filter, but I don't > > understand how to find the parent list in that case. I think it is buried > > in the info. > > > > Is there a general way to get to the org-element information for > something > > in an export filter function? > > No, there's no simple way to access the element. Filters, with a few > exceptions, are meant to operate on strings, not on the parse tree. They > are usual meant as a simple way to transform the output. I.e., they are > intentionally dumbed down. > > You could however, use the parse-tree filter to modify the parse tree > before export. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Goaziou >