Re: [O] problem with ox-pandoc export

[Rasmus]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Lawrence <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I don't see it as reinventing the wheel.  One example, does pandoc have
>>> something like the ox filters?
>>
>> It does; see e.g. http://pandoc.org/scripting.html
>>
>> Pandoc filters are actually more powerful than Org filters in most
>> cases, because they are AST transformations.  Pattern matching makes it
>> convenient and practical in Haskell to just transform the part of the
>> tree you're interested in.  And because the Pandoc data structure has a
>> JSON serialization format, filters can be written in just about any
>> language, not just Haskell.
>>
>> This is an nice system, IMHO, which has one big advantage: it is
>> possible to write complex filters (i.e., those that do more than just
>> simple string manipulation) in an output-agnostic way.  Pandoc filters
>> can do things which are generally only possible or convenient to do in
>> Org by creating a derived backend, which isn't output-agnostic.
>
> For the record, you can do the same in Org with a parse tree filter.
> Other filters are meant to be less powerful but easier to write.

Not to mention the org-export-before filters if you want something that's
still "easy" and in org syntax.

Rasmus

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