problem converting wordpress.com to export it in xml! help!?

  • Unknown's avatar
    haleysjuice · Member ·

    I am trying to export a section of my blog, well, a category, actually.

    But when I go to tools>export and then I click convert….a page opens up with this message in red at the top

    This page contains the following errors:

    error on line 88 at column 53: Namespace prefix atom on link is not defined
    error on line 89 at column 21: Namespace prefix atom on link is not defined
    Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

    I am unable to complete the export!

    HELP!?!? I don’t know what this means or what to do to get it to work!

    THANK YOU! :)

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    The browser should be downloading a file, not opening a page. Would you please try a different browser, like Chrome or Firefox?

    http://www.google.com/chrome

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

  • Unknown's avatar
    haleysjuice · Member ·

    Hey macmanx. Thanks.

    Yeah, i misworded.

    It IS a downloaded file that I am opening. It is when I open the file that the dreaded error message appears on the top of the file page.

    I use google chrome.

    ???

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    You shouldn’t be opening the file, just importing it via Tools -> Import.

    The file is just a stream of data, and pretty much only our importer is designed to understand it.

  • Unknown's avatar
    haleysjuice · Member ·

    argh!

    I went to my newly opened blog in wordpress.

    I went to tools… import… then clicked on wordpress.

    I chose the file from my computer that I had downloaded (and NOT opened) and clicked, “upload”.

    This is the message given to me:
    “Invalid file
    Please upload a valid WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) export file.”

    Why oh why? I used wordpress, tools, export- filtered for the category I wanted and pressed “ok”. Then it downloaded on my computer, and i saved it to my computer.

    Then did the above mentioned process with the new wordpress.com blog.

    ???? Why is it invalid? What can I do to GET IT to be VALID??

    THANK YOOUUUUUU :)

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Hm, ok that’s annoying. :(

    Can you please upload a screenshot of the error at Media -> Add New in your WordPress.com blog’s Dashboard, so we can get a better idea of the nature of the error?

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    albuexport · Member ·

    I’m getting the same error. And I believe it’s because the ‘atom’ namespace has not been defined.
    Please find below an excerpt from my exported file:


    <rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:excerpt="http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/excerpt/"
    xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
    xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/"
    >

    <channel>
    <title>albuexport</title>
    <link>http://albuexport.wordpress.com</link&gt;
    <description>Just another WordPress.com site</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
    <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=MU</generator&gt;
    <language>en</language>
    <wp:wxr_version>1.0</wp:wxr_version>
    <wp:base_site_url>http://wordpress.com/</wp:base_site_url&gt;
    <wp:base_blog_url>http://albuexport.wordpress.com</wp:base_blog_url&gt;
    <wp:category><wp:category_nicename>finance</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[finance]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[finance]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
    <wp:category><wp:category_nicename>first</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[first]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[first categ]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
    <wp:category><wp:category_nicename>milk-and-honey-parent</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[milk and honey parent]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[milk and honey parent]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
    <wp:category><wp:category_nicename>uncategorized</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent></wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></wp:cat_name></wp:category>
    <wp:category><wp:category_nicename>honey</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent>milk and honey parent</wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[honey]]></wp:cat_name><wp:category_description><![CDATA[honey]]></wp:category_description></wp:category>
    <wp:category><wp:category_nicename>milk</wp:category_nicename><wp:category_parent>milk and honey parent</wp:category_parent><wp:cat_name><![CDATA[milk]]></wp:cat_name></wp:category>

    <generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator&gt;
    <cloud domain='albuexport.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
    <image>
    <url>http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url&gt;
    <title>albuexport</title>
    <link>http://albuexport.wordpress.com</link&gt;
    </image>
    <atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://albuexport.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="albuexport" />
    <atom:link rel='hub' href='http://albuexport.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>

    <item>...
    </item>

    </channel>
    </rss>

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