Re: Empty headline titles unsupported: Bug?

[David Masterson]

Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> writes:

> Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> writes:
>> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>> ,* A
>> ,* :B:
>> ,* C
>> #+END_EXAMPLE
>>
>> org-element-parse-buffer and org-match-sparse-tree make the second
>> headline have title ":B:" and no tags.
>
> Currently org-syntax.org says that "TITLE can be made of any character
> but a new line.  Though, it will match after every other part have been
> matched."  This does not reflect the currently effective behavior that
> "* :t:" is a headline with title ":t:" and no tags.

Can you describe what should happen in a parser grammar (ie. BNF)?  If
not, I would tend toward rethinking the structure of the Org file so
that it can be described in a grammar.  Having a good grammar for Org
files will promote it's acceptance beyond Emacs.

-- 
David Masterson