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Improve Emacs iCalendar support

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Richard Lawrence <rwl <at> recursewithless.net>
Cc: 74994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#74994: Upstreaming org-element-ast (was: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:18:01 +0000

Richard Lawrence <rwl <at> recursewithless.net> writes:

> Ah, looking over this again, there was one thing that I felt didn't fit
> very well with org-element-ast: in iCalendar, "properties" can have both
> a "value" and a list of "parameters". These are different types of
> objects and it's most natural and useful not to lump them together, but
> in the Org element AST they would probably both just be "contents" of a
> property node (i.e., child nodes). Thus, in my draft icalendar-ast.el,
> instead of using
>
> (TYPE PROPERTIES CONTENTS)
>
> as the basic representation for a node, I used
>
> (TYPE META VALUE CHILDREN).
>
> The org-element-ast representation is obviously capable of making the
> distinction between values and parameters in some other way; but it's
> pretty much the only example I can think of where I felt the
> org-element-ast representation might not be the best for the needs of
> iCalendar.

Have you looked into secondary nodes?

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