org: Org syntax

 
 2.12 Org syntax
 ===============
 
 A reference document providing a formal description of Org’s syntax is
 available as a draft on Worg
 (http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html), written and maintained by
 Nicolas Goaziou.  It defines Org’s core internal concepts such as
 ‘headlines’, ‘sections’, ‘affiliated keywords’, ‘(greater) elements’ and
 ‘objects’.  Each part of an Org file falls into one of the categories
 above.
 
    To explore the abstract structure of an Org buffer, run this in a
 buffer:
 
      M-: (org-element-parse-buffer) RET
 
    It will output a list containing the buffer’s content represented as
 an abstract structure.  The export engine relies on the information
 stored in this list.  Most interactive commands (e.g., for structure
 editing) also rely on the syntactic meaning of the surrounding context.