X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f75b138447e828393a53db3bc4ee2960fdf93fa9..c2f784d2ad08d1656e5cd7ee2054cf092bb56ce6:/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn
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--- a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn
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@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+Using a new debian 6.0.5 system, I get the following error trying to run the script:
+
+    ~/bin/ikiwiki-wordpress-import.py "Name" email@domain log < ~/share/wordpress.2012-08-23.xml.edited | git-fast-import
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+      File "/home/luke/bin/ikiwiki-wordpress-import.py", line 139, in <module>
+        main(*sys.argv[1:])
+      File "/home/luke/bin/ikiwiki-wordpress-import.py", line 65, in main
+        content += x.find('content:encoded').string.replace('\r\n', '\n')
+    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
+    git-fast-import statistics:
+
+Any ideas on what I am doing wrong would be appreciated.
+
+-----
+
 When I attempt to use this script, I get the following error:
 warning: Not updating refs/heads/master (new tip 26b1787fca04f2f9772b6854843fe99fe06e6088 does not contain fc0ad65d14d88fd27a6cee74c7cef3176f6900ec).  I have git 1.5.6.5, any ideas?
 
@@ -24,8 +39,6 @@ git-fast-import statistics:
 
 etc.
 
+(Removed now dead info and blah blah.)
 
-> Well, if this really is a script error, it's not really the script, but the wordpress XML dump, referring to a
-> possible malformed or invalid unicode character in the dump file. This is what I can gather from other scripts.
-> I'll be checking my dump file shortly.
->
+> It works fine.... The script is picky about having everything in proper UTF-8, **and** proper XML and HTML escaping. You need that to have a successful import. I let Emacs remove DOS line endings, and it works OK (if on *nix of some sort, of course). Thing is with this `git fast-import`, is that you have to `git reset` afterwards, (let's say you put them in posts/) `git checkout posts`, `git add posts`, then commit. I don't know if this a characteristic with `git fast-import`, but this is the way I get my posts to exist on the filesystem. If I don't do this, then I lose the data. If you get that "Not updating..." error, then just --force the import in. --[[users/simonraven]]