On Mon, Sep 12 2016, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > by "non-org Emacs packages" you mean Emacs packages written in Elisp, > but not part of Org-mode?
Yes, exactly. My wording wasn't entirely clear, I admit. > The org-mode parser converts an Org document into a nested list and > provides many convenience functions to work on this parse tree. So > org-element.el (and maybe ox.el too) is the core library for converting > an Org text document into an Elisp data structure and working with that, So IIUC org-element.el is mainly for getting the contents of an org buffer in such a way that a program can work with it, but not really for modifying the contents of the buffer itself in such a way that it's still a valid org document, right? > If you feel you don't need the whole parse tree, but rather want to act > locally on the Org element at point, Yes. :-) > you might want to look at > org-dp.el Cool, I will do that! > with just two core functions (create and rewire an Org > element) and a mapping functions (plus quite a few utilities in > org-dp.el and org-dp-lib.el): [snip example] > Using this system, creating or rewiring an Org Element from Elisp > requires only to define the values of the interpreted parameters, all > the low level stuff (actually creating and inserting the new/modified > element in text form) is left to the interpreters (from org-element.el). > > You just declare what you want and don't worry anymore how it is done > (=> dp stands for declarative programming, in this context at least ;-) That sounds pretty cool, thanks! -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments
