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Re: [Orgmode] suggestion: "native" orgmode XML export (and import?)

From: Ilya Shlyakhter
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] suggestion: "native" orgmode XML export (and import?)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 22:25:28 +0200 
> 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<address@hidden> wrote:
> Ilya Shlyakhter <address@hidden> 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
>
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