Hi, thanks for your useful comments, i will reply inline to specific 
sections

On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 5:56:09 PM UTC+2, BP Jonsson wrote:
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> At first your suggestion seemed like a step backwards, but I supposed you 
> meant that these programs should respectively take/return non-document data.
>

Exactly. I would be happy if you could suggest me any change to the text 
https://github.com/italia/docs-italia-comandi-conversione/blob/master/doc/pandoc-sinks-and-sources.md 
that makes this clearer
 

>
> I have written some scripts which mined data from Pandoc ASTs but they all 
> took a filename and called out to Pandoc, basically because I didn't want 
> to type the same command line options over and over.
>

This is something i considered in order to make life easier to our users, 
the drawback is maintaining the code that passes command line options from 
the wrapper to pandoc, or imposing restrictions on the users.
 

>
> I also have several filters which read config and/or partial input from 
> external files. It seems writing a CSV to table converter is a rite of 
> passage among Pandoc filter/addon authors.
> Mine would take a code block with CSV, TSV or a file name, parse the CSV 
> with Text::CSV or simply split TSV on tabs and build a Pandoc table element 
> from the parsed structure. Where it maybe stood out was in that it could 
> convert in either direction between all three of Pandoc tables or 
> definition lists of definition lists and CSV/TSV.
>

Well hopefully having a name that describes this sort of tools could help 
their findability. If you would like to send me some links i would add them 
to the list

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