Ever since I migrated to the new blog software, I'd wanted to pull in the old content. Tonight, I did so.
Since dasBlog doesn't support BlogML export, I spent about 3 hours trying varying methods of using the BlogEngine.NET importer tool to accept the dasBlog RSS output. No dice.
So I then tried somebody elses converter which takes a RSS feed and generates a BlogML file. Nope. Doesn't support the dasBlog RSS output.
So I just wrote my own. In perl. I've attached it to this post incase anybody else ever needs to do something similar. (convertDasBlogRSSToBlogML.pl (4.10 kb))
It didn't bring across the comments and some of the other snippits of info associated with the old software, but at least the content is all there now. Dates are screwed up (12 hours out), I guess I should have done a few more dry runs before doing it live huh?