BlogML support
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I have blogs on my website and I can export them in BlogML format. I would like to import these blogml files to my WordPress blog.
Is it possible to get a BlogML plugin which we can import BlogML files through it so that we can import our other blogs?
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while I can’t say that BlogML is widely accepted now, but at least it’s already adopted by such a top class blog app as a CommuntyServer. Subtext, DasBlog, .Text and several others support it as well (MSN Spaces is expected to adopt it too but…)
by the way BlogML schema makes possible to export/import not only blog’s pure text, but file attachments like images and what not as well.
instead of using a BlogML schema, wp developers decided to reinvent a wheel of their own and have recently implemented (on the fly) a specific WP export format, which is a very good thing anyway.
if this facility will ever be available here on .com (and I hope it will), I appreciate this very much as a great sign of Matt’s good will towards a wp.com users currently deprived of any backup/restore means apart from a RSS feed.
my guess BlogML will never be supported on the .com even if its schema will go to mainstream (I think it shall).
see also: http://scripting.wordpress.com/2005/12/19/requirements-for-interop/
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Hi, I created BlogML and run the small public site for it today – http://BlogML.com. At some stage in the next month I’m expecting to make BlogML a truly open source project and I hope that this will encourage even more support for this format.
Regards,
Darren Neimke
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hello Darren,
I am sure that making at least schema and specs of BlogML available to download to everyone instead of GotDotNet members only “will encourage even more support for this format”.
not everyone here is .NET developer.
regards
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I was wondering if he or she was only going to support .NET. That’s all I saw on the site when I looked.
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I’ve just created a new site that will host BlogML and yes, it will not require people to get an account to get the Schema.
In addition to the BlogML schema I also provide an SDK of tooling and API’s that .NET developers can use “out of the box” to read and write BlogML. Now, I gather that wordpress is not .NET so you’d have to write your own tooling to produce BlogML. The SDK also contains BlogML validators that I need to expose via a web service at some stage.
I’d love to get some “non .NET” BlogML implementations though as I think that it would really round out the format.
PS: It’s a “he” by the way :-)
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I’ve now released BlogML as a fully open source project:
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anyone ever figure out how to import blogML?
anyone willing to write a subtext-to-wordpress export routine for me? i’ll pay ya handsomely.. i don’t care if it uses blogml or db calls or mechanical turk…
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@edla – I wrote a wordpress import module for BlogML, and Subtext supports exporting to BlogML. Hopefully that’s enough to get you started? Let me know (via my blog) if you have any problems with the wordpress BlogML import.
http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/08/23/breaking-up-moving-blog-engines/
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