Hello, Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes:
> The use of the :parent attribute is surprising for me. I would have > expected something like ':parent org-mode everywhere' in the second > example, i.e. the title of the 1st level subtree containing the 2nd > level headline at point. `org-element-at-point' and `org-element-context' return information about the close neighbourhood of point, which is the current section. In other words, each element at top level within the section get a nil :parent property. As a special case, when point is at a headline, each function returns the parsed headline, without any :parent property defined (it would be out of the scope of these functions). > I'm not sure what I would have expected in the first example. What is > the parent of an element that is contained in a greater element that has > a parent? Is it nil, or is it the parent of its containing greater > element? If you parse completely the buffer with `org-element-parse-buffer', you will see that genealogy for property drawer goes like this: property-drawer > section > headline > headline > org-data Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
