John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: Hi John,
> Is there a convenient way to get the properties of a headline from > org-element? I see they are in the parsed output, e.g. as :CATEGORIES > emacs,org :DATE today, but I didn't see a way to get them if I don't > already know what they are. > > I know how to get these from an org file, e.g. org-entry-properties, and > I am looking for something like this from an element. in my org-dp repo I have these two functions: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun org-dp-contents (&optional element interpret-p no-properties-p) "Get contents of element-at-point or ELEMENT. If INTERPRET-P is non-nil, call `org-element-interpret-data' on return value. Call `org-no-properties' on result if NO-PROPERTIES-P is non-nil too." (let* ((elem (cond ((and (not (booleanp element)) (symbolp element)) (eval element)) ((stringp element) (let ((el (car (read-from-string element)))) (when (consp el) el))) ((consp element) element) (t (org-element-at-point)))) (beg (org-element-property :begin elem)) (end (org-element-property :end elem)) (type (org-element-type elem))) (if (and beg end) (save-restriction (narrow-to-region beg end) (let ((cont (org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer 'object) type 'org-element-contents nil t))) (cond ((and interpret-p no-properties-p) (org-no-properties (org-element-interpret-data cont))) (interpret-p (org-element-interpret-data cont)) (t cont)))) (org-element-contents elem)))) (defun org-dp-filter-node-props (filter &optional negate-p verbose-p) "Return filtered node-properties. FILTER should be either a symbol from `org-dp-prop-classes', the symbol `org' (matching the union of all `org-dp-prop-classes' and customizable variable `org-dp-misc-props'), a list of keys as strings, or a (single) regexp-string. If NEGATE-P is non-nil, the properties not matched by the filter are returned. If VERBOSE-P is non-nil, a message is printed if no property-drawer is found, otherwise nil is returned." (let ((props (save-excursion (and (or (org-at-heading-p) (outline-previous-heading)) (re-search-forward org-property-drawer-re (save-excursion (org-end-of-meta-data-and-drawers) (point)) 'NOERROR 1) (progn (goto-char (match-beginning 0)) (org-dp-contents))))) filtered-props) (if (not props) (when verbose-p (message "Could not find properties at point %d in buffer %s." (point) (current-buffer))) (org-element-map props 'node-property (lambda (--prop) (let* ((key (org-element-property :key --prop)) (val (org-element-property :value --prop)) (memberp (case filter ((special custom default file global) (member-ignore-case key (eval (cdr-safe (assoc filter org-dp-prop-classes))))) (org (member-ignore-case key (org-dp-org-props))) (t (cond ((stringp filter) (string-match filter key)) ((consp filter) (member-ignore-case key filter)) (t (error "Not a valid filter: %s" filter))))))) (when (or (and negate-p (not memberp)) (and (not negate-p) memberp)) (setq filtered-props (cons (cons key val) filtered-props)))))) filtered-props))) #+END_SRC maybe thats somehow related... -- cheers, Thorsten