GoKawiilDeveloper releases OrgWebAlchemy, a Guile Scheme library converting Org mode to HTML
A developer has published OrgWebAlchemy, an open-source Guile Scheme library that parses Org-mode documents into an abstract syntax tree and renders them as HTML via SXML, using Parsing Expression Grammars instead of regular expressions. The source code is hosted on Codeberg, and the author says it lets Org files be exported to HTML without requiring Emacs, and is already integrated into a project called LucidPlan.
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The project suggests a growing interest among Lisp and Scheme developers in using formal grammars rather than regex for parsing structured text formats, which can offer more robust and maintainable parsing logic. By decoupling Org-mode rendering from Emacs, the library could make Org content easier to embed in web projects and other tooling outside the traditional Emacs ecosystem.
- OrgWebAlchemy is a new Guile Scheme library for parsing Org-mode into HTML.
- It uses Parsing Expression Grammars (via ice-9 peg) instead of regular expressions for parsing.
- The project is open source on Codeberg and already used in the LucidPlan project.
Source: jointhefreeworld.org, 2026-09-24
Published there as: “Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML”
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