Hi Neil, Neil Smithline <emacs-orgm...@neilsmithline.com> writes:
> I've looked at org-element.el and don't really see how it will make > writing other Org Mode to HTML converter easier. org-element.el is, > well it's elisp. Very elispy. No surprise but I'm not sure that it > can easily be converted to another language. > > Is Nicolas working from a grammar? I think an Org Mode grammar will > make writing parsers much easier. Perhaps I'm just old-school but I > think that generating an Org Mode to HTML converter in another > language would be dramatically simplified by an Org Mode grammar > semantic annotations. You're not old-school at all :) Maybe I wasn't explicit enough. 1. There is already a new Org>HTML exporter, written by Jambunathan. Try adding contrib/lisp/ to your load path, then (require 'org-export) (require 'org-e-html) then M-x org-export-dispatch RET h See the result. 2. This new Org>HTML exporter is based on contrib/lisp/org-export.el and contrib/lisp/org-element.el. The latter is responsible for parsing elements of an org-mode buffer based on a clear syntax, the former implements a generic export engine. So yes, things are going into the direction of having a better grammar for Org, Nicolas and Jambunathan already build parsers for LaTeX and HTML using this grammar, and we will implement new parsers that way. Thanks, -- Bastien
