.Text BlogML Dumper

February 6, 2006

I’ve been wanting to move off .Text to something else for quite a while. Either SUB or dasBlog are looking like the place to be at the moment and fortunately they are both supporters of BlogML – if Community Server supported BlogML I might even consider moving to that.

Anyway – the first step in my migration process is getting my existing data out of the .Text database. To do that I have made a first cut of NotGartnerDump which reads directly from the .Text database and spits out a BlogML file. The source is attached.

Hope its useful for those in the same situation.

Posted by Mitch Denny
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5 Responses to “.Text BlogML Dumper”

  1. Rory Says:

    February 6, 2006 at 12:00 am

    Woo-hoo!

    I kiss you.

    Thanks. I’m downloading the source now…

  2. JosephCooney Says:

    February 7, 2006 at 12:00 am

    Thanks for that Mitch. I started writing a .TextDataProvider (so I could run SUB on top of my existing .Text DB). BlogML is probably the better way to go. Once I get some “free time” (chuckles to self) I will have a go.

  3. Kieran Jacobsen Says:

    February 25, 2006 at 12:00 am

    I recently converted to dasBlog, very simple to write code to make the XML files required.

  4. Carl Camera Says:

    September 6, 2006 at 6:02 pm

    Mitch, I’m looking into supporting BlogML for my product Vine Type. I don’t have an existing .Text blog, so I’m interested in getting a real world example of a .Text exported BlogML file to use for import-to-Vine-Type testing. Is there any chance you might share your BlogML file?

  5. Mitch Denny Says:

    September 7, 2006 at 4:44 am

    Hi Carl,

    I’m not sure what a real world example of .TEXT to Blog ML would look like :) I had to massage it a far bit because of the quality of the .TEXT output.


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