On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Dan Davison wrote:
Is there an existing function that will convert an org syntax buffer into a corresponding (recursive) lisp data structure? (preserving all the metadata of each heading in some way?)
Well, not part of the Org core yet, but still distributed in the git repo.
It is org-export-parse in EXPERIMENTAL/org-export.el
I guess I'm thinking of structs in C, but is this a natural thing to do in lisp? I think the existence of such code might have been mentioned in Carsten's talk. If so, then my second question is whether there's a recursive 'mapping' function, to apply a function at each node of such a tree (and return some recursive structure containing the results of those function calls) (R users: I mean like rapply and dendrapply).
No, that does not exist, but it wold not be hard to write one that uses the structure returned by org-export-parse.
My understanding is that org-map-entries returns a flat, rather than a recursive, list, and that it doesn't create a recursive representation of the buffer in memory.
That is correct. HTH - Carsten
But if it's the case that I simply haven't tried hard enough to understand the code, please just say so! My current motivation is to create a directory/filesystem tree corresponding to the org tree. But I don't want to try to write an org-buffer traversal function if there's existing code written by non-beginners. DAn _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
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