Problems with OPML blogroll upload

  • antimedia

    (@antimedia)


    19 years, 1 month ago

    I’m fiddling with WordPress trying to decide if I want to switch to it. My blog is at Powerblogs, so there’s not a trivial way to transfer posts, etc.

    I wrote a perl script to convert my present blogroll to an OPML file so I could upload it, but the upload consistently fails. The error message is

    XML error: Invalid document end at line 1

    I’ve read extensively at opml.org, studied several example opml files and read the code in wp-admin/link-import.php.

    I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s wrong.

    Here’s the perl script

    #!/usr/bin/perl
my $file="blogroll_list_0.html";
my $output="blogroll.opml";
my ($one, $two, $three, $four, $five, $six, $seven, $eight);
print "<?xml version="1.0"?>n";
print "  <opml version="1.0">n";
print "    <head>n";
print "      <title>"Blogroll"</title>n";
print "      <dateCreated>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:24:18 GMT</dateCreated>n";
print "    </head>n";
print "    <body>n";
print "      <outline type="category" title="Blogroll">n";
open(FILE,$file) or die "Can't open $filen";
while(<FILE>) {
  ($one, $two, $three, $four, $five, $six, $seven, $eight) = split(/[<>=]/,$_,8);
  print "        <outline text="$seven" type="link" xmlUrl="" htmlUrl=$six updated="" />n";
}
close(FILE);
print "    </outline>n";
print "  </body>n";
print "</opml>n";

    Here’s a small part of the file (I have 274 blogs in my blogroll.)

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <opml version="1.0">
    <head>
      <title>"Blogroll"</title>
      <dateCreated>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:24:18 GMT</dateCreated>
    </head>
    <body>
      <outline type="category" title="Blogroll">
        <outline text="J Barne's Coffee Shop" type="link" xmlUrl="" htmlUrl="http://jbarnescoffee.blogspot.com/" updated="" />
        <outline text="Jennifer's History and Stuff" type="link" xmlUrl="" htmlUrl="http://jenlars.mu.nu/" updated="" />
        <outline text="Jeremiah Stoddard" type="link" xmlUrl="" htmlUrl="http://www.jeremiahstoddard.com/" updated="" />
..............
<outline text="A Youth's View from the Right" type="link" xmlUrl="" htmlUrl="http://tokenyoungconservative.blogspot.com/" updated="" />
        <outline text="Zenpundit" type="link" xmlUrl="" htmlUrl="http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/" updated="" />
    </outline>
  </body>
</opml>

    So what the heck am I doing wrong?

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  • drmike

    (@drmike)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    There’s a bug in the most recent code concerning the OPML importer. The uploader doesn’t work but the URL importer does.

    http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3712

    You don’t mention what format your current blogroll is in. If it’s just html, I usually recommend using this converter. Seems to work fine:

    http://www.smartpeer.net/jiescripts/html2opml.php

    You just have to put the resulting file up somewhere on teh web and point wp to it.

    Hope this helps,
    -drmike

    Thread Starter antimedia

    (@antimedia)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the tip. Don’t know why, but it never even occurred to me to put the file on my website and import it that way. The perl script I wrote formats the opml file correctly, but I’ll take a look at the one you linked to as well.

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