Re: FIguring out pandoc AST and types

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Harsh Donga <harsh-7+aFW328pE6p1wGUEcWPqti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Okay, being new to Haskell some of the questions might seem vague and some 
> straightforward to you, I apologize in advance for that.
>
> 1. How can I create pandoc type variables, where exactly do I look if I 
> want to make a table object purely using Haskell then convert it to JSON 
> AST/other formats

You want to look at

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-types-1.22/docs/Text-Pandoc-Builder.html

> 2. How can I convert my own JSON (storing elements analogous to HTML) to 
> pandoc AST

If it's a custom JSON format, then you'll need to parse it to a
pandoc AST using a Haskell JSON parsing library (like aeson).
Alternatively, you could convert your JSON format to the JSON
serialization pandoc uses (which you can inspect using
pandoc -t json).

> 3. is there any way possible to make pandoc type variables using other 
> languages like JS, Python...

As noted above, you can construct a JSON document that represents
the pandoc AST; pandoc can then read this (pandoc -f json).

To understand pandoc's JSON serialization, the best thing to use
is pandoc itself.

pandoc -t native

will give you a look at the pandoc AST

pandoc -f native -t json

will show you how pandoc represents AST elements in JSON.