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0 pointsbtschaegg8y ago0 comments

I've been looking for a similar solution - albeit not for HTML - but haven't found anything convincing so far. My train of thought was: It'd be great to have a a canonical XML format for org files to export to, since after that, you could essentially write XSLT transforms for almost any target format (even back to org-files to go full circle). In my case, that e.g. would be odt-files with branding for the organization I'm taking minutes for.

After a bit of googling, I also found an email[1] on the mailing list asking for more or less exactly that, but things don't seem to have gotten far.

I've been thinking about adapting the existing HTML export for such an XML format, but I really haven't had the time for it. :-/

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-08/msg...

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icebraining8y ago

Pandoc supports org-mode, so you should be able to use it to convert to DocBook, which you can then use with XLST (pandoc also supports HTML directly, by the way).

btschaeggOP8y ago

If I remember correctly, I had a look at the pandoc option, but got to the conclusion that this way, I would throw away useful 'syntactical' information (for example, I use todo-flags, tags and timestamps to track open tasks).

If you use org-mode without the need to extract such specific information (and are only interested in generating a document), pandoc might of course be a good way to go.

Edit: ...or maybe there even is a hack to identify and extract things like timestamps anyway. I didn't look into it that much.

omaranto8y ago

I doubt XSLT is any easier to write than a new Org export backend, but that's probably a matter of personal preference.

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