anyone know about this?

[kjoker]

Hiya,

I just installed Serendipity and converted some of my blog archives. It works fine. But having a problem with my old archive from blurty. Anyone know how to import bml to serendipity??

I've been trying to locate a tool that save bml to xml but can't find any. and i read that bml has retired in the IBM news.

thanks

[garvinhicking]

Doesn't your old blog have a RSS feed? You could import your RSS feed?

(I don't know blurty...)

Regards,
Garvin

[kjoker]

just my luck. at that time..there wasn't RSS in blurty. Only has the bml export. Damn.. i already closed that account like 3 years ago :p

only kept the bml file

[garvinhicking]

Never heard of "BML". What does it look like?

Regards,
Garvin

[kjoker]

it's a javabean code. the exported file it looks like this:

itemid,eventtime,logtime,subject,event,security,allowmask,current_music,current_mood
650,2005-05-13 14:27:00,2005-05-13 09:27:12,test2,test2,public,0,,accomplished
958,2005-05-13 14:27:00,2005-05-13 09:28:35,test2,test2,public,0,,accomplished
466,2005-05-13 14:10:00,2005-05-13 09:11:06,test,test,public,0,,accomplished

the top line is the variable names for the categories in the blog

I think you've seen this format before
650 - itemid
2005-05-13 - eventtime
2005-05-13 09:27:12 - logtime
.
.
.
and so forth

the thing is...some of these blogs still uses bml to export stuff. IBM already announced it that BML is dead.

[garvinhicking]

Hm, okay. Well, if you're a bit familar with PHP you could be able to write an importer for that stuff. However I can't offer you help for this, if it's a dead format it would be too much work...

Best regards,
Garvin

[kjoker]

maybe i'll try creating a php script that can convert that...
but like you said... the language is dead.