[Haskell-cafe] Difficulties in accessing inner elements of data types

[Tim Docker]

> While writing an OrgFile is fairly easy, reading (and
> accessing inner parts) of an org file is very tedious,
> and modifying them is horrendous.

Have you looked at

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/data-accessor

It's something I've used successfully when wanting to
manipulate the internals of complex types.

Tim