Re: Re: [CEDET-devel] Org-mode

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Eric M. Ludlam <eric@siege- 
> engine.com> wrote:
>> On 10/30/2010 03:45 AM, Konrad Scorciapino wrote:
>>> Hey!
>>>
>>> Is anybody working on Org-mode? My main interest is to build a  
>>> parser to
>>> manipulate the nodes of the resulting tree and save them back.  
>>> Tips on
>>> how to get started are also welcome.
>>>
>>
>> I know of no one doing that.  I don't know what org-mode's code
>> structure is like, but I'd assume it already has a parser, and you  
>> could
>> adapt the output to Semantic tag format.
>>
>> The HTML parser also handles arbitrary text so you could look in
>> semantic-html to see what sort of things that  does.
>
> There are different exporters for org-mode.
>
> Currently we are trying to make an exporter to ODT files. I think a
> parser would come in handy.


org-html.el is probably the best starting point to make a complete  
parser.  It does a very detailed analysis of the text.

We should have built all the exporters on the same parser -  
unfortunately we did not.  One of the hard to correct mistakes we made  
in early development.

- Carsten