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Given an org document, I'd like to traverse all the nodes (headlines) that have the following property ARTICLE_TYPE, and extract the body (excluding the drawers) for each one.

I'm struggling to find the appropriate org-element-map expression that will give me this.

Any ideas?

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I think this does what you want. It does assume there is no nesting of the headlines. 

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results code
(org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer)
    'headline
  (lambda (hl)
    (when (org-element-property :ARTICLE_TYPE hl) 
      (buffer-substring-no-properties
       (save-excursion
     (goto-char (org-element-property :begin hl))
     (org-end-of-meta-data)
     (point))
       (org-element-property :contents-end hl)))))
#+END_SRC
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  • Apparently this returns only the result for the first headline that matches (no idea why it doesn't return all). (Rant: Generally, for a package as good as org mode, I'm a bit shocked at how poor/nonexistent the API is. I would have expected a way to traverse all headlines in whatever order I like (e.g. BFS vs DFS), as well as things like "Return all children of this node" and so on). (BTW, learned a lot from your blog in the past - thanks!)
    – Beetle B.
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 0:13
  • For me, this returns all the nodes. org-element-map has an optional argument that stops at the first match, but I don't use it in this example.
    – John Kitchin
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 1:18
  • Marking as correct, as it seems to work for you. Probably something wrong on my setup and I haven't had time to debug.
    – Beetle B.
    Commented Dec 22, 2018 at 0:45

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