On 23/09/2020 10:09, Bastien wrote: > I disagree that a parser is too difficult to maintain because Org is > a moving target. Org core syntax is not moving anymore, a parser can > reasonably target it. That's what is done with the Ruby parser, in > use in this small project called github.com :)
(Just an aside: which Ruby org-mode parser does Github use? I sometime find instances where Github does not render an org-mode file correclty and I would be happy to file bugs to have them corrected). > So I'd say: > > - let's enhance Worg's documentation > - yes, please go for enhancing parsing tools > > I don't think we need official tools. The official Org parser exists, > it is Org itself. Would it make sense to have one "official" (or a set of) org-mode test files and the corresponding syntax tree as parsed by org-elements (maybe in a format easier to read from other programming languages than s-expressions, json maybe?) to make testing other parser against the reference implementation easier? Maybe the org-mode test suite already has something like this. I haven't looked for it yet. Cheers, Dan
