Hi Ilya,
is XHTML not XML enough? I use the XHTML to extract snippets and their language, tags, sections, section IDs... The XHTML export is able to export each and every information an Org-file can possibly contain. All textual content and links, IDs ... are converted to valid X(HT)ML. As XHTML export is already used a lot, why not put more energy into improving that existing one (specification), instead of another exporter? XHTML => SAX-parser (e.g.) => what ever you want ??? Sebastian Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_...@alum.mit.edu> writes: >> In the meantime, it would be useful to describe what kind of XML output >> do you want, because "XML" does not really describe anything per se. > > I'm looking for XML output that would closely mirror the logical > structure of the org file, and that would contain all the information > in the orgfile (since it's easy to ignore the parts you don't need > during XML processing). So, something like > > <orgfile> > <entry> > <headline>Tasks</headline> > <body>Here are the tasks I need to do</body> > <children> > <entry> > <headline>Buy bread</headline> > <todo-status>DONE</todo-status> > <tags><tag>food</tag><tag>errands</tag></tags> > <properties> > <property><name>Importance</name><value>1</value></property> > > <property><name>Deadline</name><value><date><day>07</day><month>08</month><year>09</year></date></value></property> > </properties> > </entry> > </children> > </entry> > </orgfile> > > The details of the XML schema can of course change. But it should > let you process org file data without having to parse any elements of > the org file (ideally, even dates) -- it would all be parsed by > orgmode's native parsing code and put into XML elements. > > If there are questions about how to represent specific org elements in > XML I can try to write a more detailed spec. > > thanks, > > ilya > > > > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Bastien<bastiengue...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_...@alum.mit.edu> writes: >> >>> That's great, thanks! I should be able to take it from there. >>> It would be great if at some point this became official, and also >>> included an XML exporter and specification. >> >> FYI, I'll upload a slightly improved version of org-export.el next week, >> together with documentation on how to write an exporter. But the basic >> structure of the parsed buffer is the same, you can use it safely. >> >> In the meantime, it would be useful to describe what kind of XML output >> do you want, because "XML" does not really describe anything per se. >> >> Best, >> >> -- >> Bastien _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
