"Rohit Patnaik" <quanti...@quanticle.net> writes: > My question is, why does org-md-verbatim use org-element-property to retrieve > the text to be transcoded, when org-md-bold and org-md-italic use the contents > parameter. In other words, couldn't the function be simplified to something > like > this:
You can't because the contents of verbatim element is always nil. Verbatim cannot contain other objects inside. All the objects that can contain other objects are listed in org-element-object-containers. > The broader context for my question is that I'm writing my own org exporter, > and > I'd like some more clarity on what the distinction is between getting the > value > of the element with org-element-property and relying on the export framework > to > pass the value to the transcoder via the contents parameter. Any Org element is structured as (type properties contents). However, not all the Org elements have contents (as I mentioned above). Elements without contents generally store their text in one of the PROPERTIES. You may find it useful to examine org-element-interpret-TYPE functions to see how the element text can be recovered from its PROPERTIES and CONTENTS. -- Ihor Radchenko, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/. Support Org development at https://liberapay.com/org-mode, or support my work at https://liberapay.com/yantar92
