Add support for descriptive lists

README.org

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 A basic org-mode parser in go.
 Take a look at [[https://niklasfasching.github.io/go-org/][github pages]] for some examples and an online org->html demo.
 * next
-- lists
-  definition lists
-  checkboxes
+- list checkboxes
 - more keywords: https://orgmode.org/manual/In_002dbuffer-settings.html
 * other differences to goorgeous
 - no headline ids

etc/style.css

@@ -108,3 +108,8 @@ figcaption {
 .align-left   { text-align: left;   }
 .align-center { text-align: center; }
 .align-right  { text-align: right;  }
+
+
+dl { font-family: monospace, monospace; }
+dl > dt { font-weight: bold; }
+dl > dd { margin: -1em 0 1em 1em; }

org/html.go

@@ -26,11 +26,9 @@ var emphasisTags = map[string][]string{
 }
 
 var listTags = map[string][]string{
-	"+":      []string{"<ul>", "</ul>"},
-	"-":      []string{"<ul>", "</ul>"},
-	"*":      []string{"<ul>", "</ul>"},
-	"number": []string{"<ol>", "</ol>"},
-	"letter": []string{"<ol>", "</ol>"},
+	"unordered":   []string{"<ul>", "</ul>"},
+	"ordered":     []string{"<ol>", "</ol>"},
+	"descriptive": []string{"<dl>", "</dl>"},
 }
 
 func NewHTMLWriter() *HTMLWriter {
@@ -84,6 +82,8 @@ func (w *HTMLWriter) writeNodes(ns ...Node) {
 			w.writeList(n)
 		case ListItem:
 			w.writeListItem(n)
+		case DescriptiveListItem:
+			w.writeDescriptiveListItem(n)
 
 		case Table:
 			w.writeTable(n)
@@ -260,6 +260,18 @@ func (w *HTMLWriter) writeListItem(li ListItem) {
 	w.WriteString("</li>\n")
 }
 
+func (w *HTMLWriter) writeDescriptiveListItem(di DescriptiveListItem) {
+	w.WriteString("<dt>\n")
+	if len(di.Term) != 0 {
+		w.writeNodes(di.Term...)
+	} else {
+		w.WriteString("?")
+	}
+	w.WriteString("<dd>\n")
+	w.writeNodes(di.Details...)
+	w.WriteString("<dd>\n")
+}
+
 func (w *HTMLWriter) writeParagraph(p Paragraph) {
 	if isEmptyLineParagraph(p) {
 		return

org/list.go

@@ -17,8 +17,15 @@ type ListItem struct {
 	Children []Node
 }
 
+type DescriptiveListItem struct {
+	Bullet  string
+	Term    []Node
+	Details []Node
+}
+
 var unorderedListRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`^(\s*)([-]|[+]|[*])\s(.*)`)
 var orderedListRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`^(\s*)(([0-9]+|[a-zA-Z])[.)])\s+(.*)`)
+var descriptiveListItemRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`\s::(\s|$)`)
 
 func lexList(line string) (token, bool) {
 	if m := unorderedListRegexp.FindStringSubmatch(line); m != nil {
@@ -39,12 +46,12 @@ func stopIndentBelow(t token, minIndent int) bool {
 
 func listKind(t token) string {
 	switch bullet := t.matches[2]; {
+	case descriptiveListItemRegexp.MatchString(t.content):
+		return "descriptive"
 	case bullet == "*" || bullet == "+" || bullet == "-":
-		return bullet
-	case unicode.IsLetter(rune(bullet[0])):
-		return "letter"
-	case unicode.IsDigit(rune(bullet[0])):
-		return "number"
+		return "unordered"
+	case unicode.IsLetter(rune(bullet[0])), unicode.IsDigit(rune(bullet[0])):
+		return "ordered"
 	default:
 		panic(fmt.Sprintf("bad list bullet '%s': %#v", bullet, t))
 	}
@@ -52,20 +59,36 @@ func listKind(t token) string {
 
 func (d *Document) parseList(i int, parentStop stopFn) (int, Node) {
 	start, lvl := i, d.tokens[i].lvl
-
 	list := List{Kind: listKind(d.tokens[i])}
-	for !parentStop(d, i) && d.tokens[i].lvl == lvl && isListToken(d.tokens[i]) && listKind(d.tokens[i]) == list.Kind {
-		consumed, node := d.parseListItem(i, parentStop)
+	stop := func(*Document, int) bool {
+		if parentStop(d, i) || d.tokens[i].lvl != lvl || !isListToken(d.tokens[i]) {
+			return true
+		}
+		if list.Kind == "descriptive" {
+			return false
+		}
+		return listKind(d.tokens[i]) != list.Kind
+	}
+	for !stop(d, i) {
+		consumed, node := d.parseListItem(list, i, parentStop)
 		i += consumed
 		list.Items = append(list.Items, node)
 	}
 	return i - start, list
 }
 
-func (d *Document) parseListItem(i int, parentStop stopFn) (int, Node) {
+func (d *Document) parseListItem(l List, i int, parentStop stopFn) (int, Node) {
 	start, nodes, bullet := i, []Node{}, d.tokens[i].matches[2]
-	minIndent := d.tokens[i].lvl + len(bullet)
-	d.tokens[i] = tokenize(strings.Repeat(" ", minIndent) + d.tokens[i].content)
+	minIndent, dterm, content := d.tokens[i].lvl+len(bullet), "", d.tokens[i].content
+	if l.Kind == "descriptive" {
+		if m := descriptiveListItemRegexp.FindStringIndex(content); m != nil {
+			dterm, content = content[:m[0]], content[m[1]:]
+			if len(content) == 0 {
+				content = "\n"
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	d.tokens[i] = tokenize(strings.Repeat(" ", minIndent) + content)
 	stop := func(d *Document, i int) bool {
 		if parentStop(d, i) {
 			return true
@@ -78,5 +101,8 @@ func (d *Document) parseListItem(i int, parentStop stopFn) (int, Node) {
 		i += consumed
 		nodes = append(nodes, node)
 	}
+	if l.Kind == "descriptive" {
+		return i - start, DescriptiveListItem{bullet, d.parseInline(dterm), nodes}
+	}
 	return i - start, ListItem{bullet, nodes}
 }

org/org.go

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ func (w *OrgWriter) writeNodes(ns ...Node) {
 			w.writeList(n)
 		case ListItem:
 			w.writeListItem(n)
+		case DescriptiveListItem:
+			w.writeDescriptiveListItem(n)
 
 		case Table:
 			w.writeTable(n)
@@ -228,6 +230,22 @@ func (w *OrgWriter) writeListItem(li ListItem) {
 	w.WriteString(strings.TrimPrefix(liWriter.String(), liWriter.indent))
 }
 
+func (w *OrgWriter) writeDescriptiveListItem(di DescriptiveListItem) {
+	diWriter := w.emptyClone()
+	diWriter.indent = w.indent + strings.Repeat(" ", len(di.Bullet)+1)
+	diWriter.writeNodes(di.Details...)
+	details := strings.TrimPrefix(diWriter.String(), diWriter.indent)
+	w.WriteString(w.indent + di.Bullet)
+	if len(di.Term) != 0 {
+		w.WriteString(" " + w.nodesAsString(di.Term...) + " ::")
+	}
+	if len(details) > 0 && details[0] == '\n' {
+		w.WriteString(details)
+	} else {
+		w.WriteString(" " + details)
+	}
+}
+
 func (w *OrgWriter) writeTable(t Table) {
 	for _, row := range t.Rows {
 		w.WriteString(w.indent)

org/testdata/lists.html

@@ -92,3 +92,26 @@ that spans multiple lines
 </pre>
 </li>
 </ul>
+<p>
+descriptive lists
+</p>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+term<dd>
+<p>
+description
+</p>
+<dd>
+<dt>
+?<dd>
+<p>
+without term
+</p>
+<dd>
+<dt>
+term<dd>
+<p>
+description
+</p>
+<dd>
+</dl>

org/testdata/lists.org

@@ -21,3 +21,11 @@
   : with an example
   : 
   : that spans multiple lines
+
+
+descriptive lists
+
+- term :: description
+- without term
+- term ::
+  description