Re: [O] Possible to use src block to generate org headlines for export?

[Nick Dokos]

Matt Lundin <address@hidden> writes:

> I am attempting to use a babel code snippet to generate org headlines
> for export. However, I seem to be running into a corner case here.
>
> AFAICT, the only way to generate headlines safely with babel is to wrap
> them in a :RESULTS: drawer.
>
> Take the following example:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC perl :export results :results output org drawer
>   print "* Headline One\n";
>   print "* Headline Two\n";
>   print "* Headline Three\n";
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> If I hit the source block, it creates wraps the output in a drawer. This
> protects the results, so when executing the source block again, babel
> correctly detects the drawer and replaces the output rather than
> multiplying it indefinitely, as it does with "raw".
>
> #+RESULTS:
> :RESULTS:
> * Headline One
> * Headline Two
> * Headline Three
> :END:
>
>
> The problem with the results drawer is that org-element (and thus ox.el)
> does not recognize it as a drawer and thus includes :RESULTS: in the
> export. The html output looks like this:
>
> <p>
> :RESULTS:
> </p>
> <div id="outline-container-sec-1" class="outline-2">
> <h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Headline One</h2>
> </div>
> <div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
> <h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Headline Two</h2>
> </div>
> <div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
> <h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Headline Three</h2>
> <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> In short, is there a more graceful and export-friendly way to use babel
> to generate org headlines for export? Or is there an easy way to get the
> export backend to delete the opening part of the drawer (i.e.,
> :RESULTS:)?
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 
>

No solace for your pain alas.  See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/88557

My suggestion (as it was for Ronald, except that he had already rejected
it :-) ) would be to use raw: you lose the idempotency of results
production, but I don't know of any other problems.

-- 
Nick