Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes: Hello,
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > >> when writing an exporter backend, I wonder what is the canonical way to >> extract the (optional) timestamp element from a headline's :title >> attribute (which holds a secondary string)? >> >> I could do something like this to extract the timestamp from the headline >> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp >> (let ((ttl (org-element-property :title headline))) >> (and (> (length ttl) 1) >> (car (last ttl)))) >> #+end_src >> >> but I hope there is a more straight-forward and reliable way to do >> this? > > You can map over a secondary string. E.g.: > > (org-element-map (org-element-property :title headline) 'timestamp > 'identity) I knew there must be a better way to do this - thanks for the tip! -- cheers, Thorsten