> Why can't a parser be written? Because the existing parser is written in truly emacs style: no formal grammar, just a lisp code with a regexp at each turn. T

> Why can't a parser be written? Because the existing parser is written in truly emacs style: no formal grammar, just a lisp code with a regexp at each turn. Theoretically speaking it doesn't forbid you from writing a parser, but in practice there are no full-blown parsers of org-mode except the reference one.