Hello, Brett Viren <b...@bnl.gov> writes:
> Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes: > >> You can use `org-element-parse-buffer' to convert an Emacs Buffer to a >> structured Emacs Lisp object. At that point you can use existing tools >> for converting lisp to JSON or YAML. I've used cl-json for Common Lisp, >> I would imagine something similar exists for Emacs Lisp. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I pursued that a bit this weekend. The > resulting data structure is a Circular Object[1] due to the ":parent" > references. It seems dealing with this kind of data structure is > somewhat uncommon (or my search-fu lacking), although I do find a recent > reference to it on this mailing list[2]. I also found a "cust-print"[3] > feature from Emacs 19 which has since been removed. It shows a way to > deal with Circular Objects. So far it has strongly taxed my poor elisp > skills but I plan to pursue this direction a bit more. > > I did try throwing a JSON parser/generator[4] at the output of > org-element-parse-buffer but this failed due to exceeding emacs's > recursion limits. I think this must be from the ":parent" references > getting recursed on forever. You can walk the tree, e.g. with `org-element-map', and remove all :parent references if you don't need them. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
