Re: How to export to the simplest possible HTML?

[Max Nikulin]

On 30/05/2023 10:47, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> since I'm going to
> call my exporting function in a loop over many elements.  I tried
>
> (org-export-with-backend 'html (org-element-at-point (point)))

There is `org-export-string-as', but likely it is not suitable for you. 
My guess is that you are going to export headings (blog posts) to 
separate html files.

> This is /italic/.
>
> can become e.g.
>
> This is <span class="emphasize">italic</span>.

I am curious whether <em> is more friendly to screen readers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/em

> I'm considering writing a custom (derived) export backend, but maybe
> that is an overkill?  Any ideas?

I just have noticed

(defcustom org-html-text-markup-alist
  '((bold . "<b>%s</b>")
    (code . "<code>%s</code>")
    (italic . "<i>%s</i>")
    (strike-through . "<del>%s</del>")
    (underline . "<span class=\"underline\">%s</span>")
    (verbatim . "<code>%s</code>"))
  "Alist of HTML expressions to convert text markup.

You may look into ox-html customizations such as
(:html-doctype "HTML_DOCTYPE" nil org-html-doctype)
(:html-html5-fancy nil "html5-fancy" org-html-html5-fancy)

I have never tried ox-slimhtml:
Laszlo Elo. ox-slimhtml. Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:48:27 -0500. 
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