Re: [Orgmode] How to write an exporter

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Christian Egli wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've been wanting to have an exporter for latex beamer and for
> mediawiki. I thought that might be a nice summer project. How do I
> write it? Do I use
>
> - the new mapping API
> - or the "new" exporter engine from Bastien which is buried away
>   somewhere on a branch in git?
>
> I guess the mapping API is included in org-mode proper but only gives
> me access to the headlines AFAIK. What is the status of the exporter
> engine from Bastien? Is it ever going to be resurrected?

Bastien has been quite busy lately, and I am not sure how this will
develop in the future.

The "new export engine" as far as I can see, is so far mostly a parser
that converts an Org file into a structured hierarchy of property lists
that give access to the entire content as well as all the meta data
like tags, todo state, deadline date etc etc.

I have pulled out org-export.el from the branch and placed a copy into
the EXPERIMENTAL subdirectory of the master branch.

Bastien, I fixed a bug which had to do with narrowing in a recursive  
procedure - the old restriction needs to be remembered.  Also, I  
implemented a function that will remove the meta data (most of it  
anyway) from the content string, so maybe this is a useful thing?  It  
is a separate function, so easily removed again.

Looking at org-export.el,  Bastien also planed to have filter  
functions, and then backend that will write the structure back to a  
file - I don't know how much of this works.

Christian, you could simply experiment with the return value of org- 
export-parse.

HTH

- Carsten



> Thanks
> Christian
>
>
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