Hello, Amin was kind enough to poke me to submit and post about my package, ox-slimhtml. In a nutshell, it is an org-export backend - transcodes Org elements to HTML/text output.
My primary use for it, is to create derived export backends. (picture a/b testing, for example) By default, it outputs HTML5, essentially (as it tries to not ignore current output preferences). Within each transcoder, I tried to pick out the relevant core elements being passed through - what I skipped from the original ox-html exporter is the domain logic surrounding templating and navigation. A sample of the output can be seen here http://bald.cat/ox-slimhtml/ From a more detailed perspective, I use it to template the output of some Org documents (common sources of truth); these include some minimal Org markup, and as such, they provide convenient element-by-element programmatic access. This all depends on where you’d like to organize the logic behind each elements’ transcoding process, of course - so, for now, I’ll say that it works really nice for me. YMMV :) Laszlo