Back in April 2002, I converted my Manila weblog at editthispage.com to Movable Type using XML files exported from Manila and a simple Perl script (using XML::Twig).
This month (2 weeks before the weblogs.com outage), Susan Kitchens found my old script and asked me about converting her Manila site http://www.2020hindsight.org (after she had painstakingly extracted her site into XML). I thought that the Movable Type Import Format would be a good target, since it can be imported into many different weblogging systems.
However, Manila had become more complicated in the meantime, and I was unable to quickly apply my script to Susan’s files (i.e. I’ve gotten stuck), and I’m short of time. Since a number of people had publicly offered to help export Manila sites, people with a probably a better understanding of Manila and XML than I have, I decided to plea for help via a Wiki page entitled ConvertingManila. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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[...] apaScott has been helping Susan move her content from the old and busted to a new hotness, but has hit a snag: Back in April 2002, I converted my Manila weblog at editthisp [...]
Thanks, Jason! I sure do appreciate it! And I’m sure that there may be others besides me who will appreciate it, too!
I wrote a Frontier script that takes a Manila site and turns it into a file of the format that’s importable by MovableType (and, apparently, TypePad). The script is still a little bit dirty, in that there are one or two places where I have to hand-code in relevant information for each conversion, but I’d be happy to clean it up and share it…