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[Scott Wolpow]

I used blogger to create a site and use the FTP function to load to my 
server, so I have all the files.

I am trying to move off blogger because it just sucks bigtime, the FTP 
keeps failing. I also plan to revamp the site.

I have about 2000 articles.
I tried to move first to wordpress with the intention of moving to 
Joomla which is easier.
The trouble is the Import on Wordpress breaks, most likely due to the 
same FTP issue.

I really only want to take each post and convert to an articles, I do 
not need to maintain the 'blog' aspect.

The archive HTML pages for the most part are date coded by the month. 
These pages have the usual HTML and CSS tags.

They also have tags are id the post.Example below. I want to import each 
post as an article and map the classes to the correct fields in the 
Joomla DB.

Is there any tools that I can use or what would be the quickest way?
I am think about using a script that would go through each script and 
just write it to the DB.

Thanks

SW


<h2 class="date-header">Friday, February 25, 2005</h2>


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      Dirty Harry film to become a video game
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>Academy award winner <a 
href="http://www.clinteastwood.net/">Clint Eastwood</a>, who starred as 
gun-toting Inspector Harry Callahan in the 1971 film <a 
href="http://www.filmsite.org/dirt.html">DIRTY HARRY</a>, will lend his 
voice and likeness to a "Dirty Harry" game.<br /><br />The film made 
phrases such as "Do you feel lucky?" and "Go ahead punk, make my day" 
some of the most memorable in movie history.<br /><br />Warner Bros 
Interactive Entertainment will oversee development of the game 
franchise.<br /><br /><a 
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4295331.stm">Read 
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