[pmwiki-users] Wordpress Import

[Ian Barton]

> 
> I'm working on moving my own wordpress installation into PmWiki, and
> along the lines of our recent discussions on blogging with PmWiki,
> I've decided to take a different approach - rather than naming the
> posts by date, I'm instead going to just place the posts in wiki pages
> with normal titles; so like a post about library catalog lookup

I hadn't thought of using the page creation time. That sounds like a 
good way of doing it.

I have made some progress. I have now decided to use xml as the 
export/import medium. I have got a very alpha setup working. The main 
problem I am facing is the body text.

Initially, I had embedded the body in CDATA tags. However, if I try to 
process the data using xml_parse the parser ignores the data inside the 
CDATA tags, which I imagine is the correct behaviour.

My second approach is to try and convert the body text into valid xml 
and not use CDATA. I have bodged this by escaping characters using 
preg_replace. This works on my data, but will obviously fall over if 
someone else's data has characters I didn't include in my preg_replace.

What I really need is some sort of gerneral function that will take a 
lump of text and escape any invalid characters. I am sure that one must 
exist, but as a php novice I can't come up with the right combination of 
keywords in my search:)

Ian.