Simon Castellan <simon.castel...@iuwt.fr> writes: > On lun. 27/févr. (15:27), Alan Schmitt wrote: >> On 26 févr. 2012, at 17:41, Simon Castellan wrote: >> >> > I have been writing a parser for mlorg files in OCaml. This started as an >> > experiment to see if the literate programming mode of org-mode could scale >> > to a >> > full application (among other things). >> >> This looks very interesting, and would very much help in the >> dissemination of org-mode. Have you thought of announcing it on the >> caml mailing list? >> >> Alan > > I have but prefer to wait mlorg to be more complete. This post was meant > mainly > to gather info/document about org's syntax. (But as I said feedbacks welcome.) >
Hi Simon, Nicolas Goaziou has been working recently on a new emacs-lisp parser of Org-mode files, with the goals of 1. standardizing the formal syntax of Org-mode files 2. parsing Org-mode files to a canonical emacs-lisp list-based representation in memory (like an Org-mode AST) 3. re-basing the existing Org-mode exporters off of this canonical representation This work is contained in contrib/lisp/org-element.el, which includes a large amount of useful commentary at the top of the file. This should serve as a starting point for learning more about the formal syntax of Org-mode files (as it is defined). I think that developing parsers for this syntax in multiple language should be very useful to ensure that a usable syntax is developed separate from any particular implementation. Cheers, > > Simon. > -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
