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[Scott Wolpow]

I will write it, if others can give me some help with fixing it when I 
screw-up. :)
SW
On 1/24/2009 3:06 PM, forest mars wrote:
> We talked about this before I think. AFAIK, there is no killer app for 
> this sort of migration.
>
> It's funny, bc people often need/want to do this, so it seems as soon 
> as someone wrote the data migration script and released it, it would 
> quickly be improved until it was very good.
>
> So, I guess it's up to you!
>
> cheers,
>
> ƒorest
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Scott Wolpow <scott at wolpow.com 
> <mailto:scott at wolpow.com>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>
>
>     <!-- Begin .post -->
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>     <div class="post"><a name="110937854665119972"></a>
>
>
>
>     <h3 class="post-title">
>         Dirty Harry film to become a video game
>     </h3>
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>     <p>
>     <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
>     the entire article.</a><br /><br /><br /><img
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