Xanga to Wordpress Exporter

xanga.r [18-May-2007] - This is a program written in rebol that parses xanga pages to get the post and comments. Then it can output them in the wordpress rss 2.0 xml format for wordpress to import.

In order to use it the xanga site must be in it's default theme. To do this go to 'edit theme' in xanga and uncheck 'make this your active theme'. The bottom should have "Next 5 >>" in order to see your older posts. Features:

Everything is contained within an object called 'xanga
Retrieves all unique post urls in xanga/links
All posts are stores with comments as objects in xanga/posts
All posts and comment dates/times are preserved.
You can store your posts in data form to load and export later
Wordpress RSS 2.0 exporting
All posts put into a "xanga" category

Limitations:

Only retrieves first page of comments per post(25 comments)
Has only been tested back to June 2004
Somewhat poor error handling
Does not get currently listening/watching/reading header items, and sometimes only gets them and misses the post.

Code Use - The code is written in rebol and so the object must be used with rebol. From the rebol console the code is below.
A basic export:

		do %xanga.r
		xanga/export http://www.xanga.com/user-name
		xanga/export-wpxml %myfile.xml

There are also refinements on export-wpxml to specify the new wordpress site url and to specify the title of the site.
Useful methods:

xanga/export gets all the posts and comments from a site
xanga/export-wpxml exports all the data to the wordpress xml format
xanga/get-pagelist gets all of the posts on a single page
xanga/get-post gets a single post given the page
xanga/save-posts stores the rebol object that contains the data so you don't have to reparse it again
xanga/load-post loads the rebol object saved earlier
xanga/post-data? returns true if the 'posts object has data, false if not
xanga/clear-data resets the object and delets all stored data

xword.r [18-May-2007] - This is a gui wrapper for the xanga.r script. In order to run the script you must have the xanga.r script and the latest version of rebgui.r.
I am also providing a windows and a linux binary version if you don't want to run the script.

Usage:

Type in correct site url
Click "Get Data" and wait until finished
To export the wordpress file: type in a file name and click "Export"
To save data for the future click the "Config" tab and click "Save"
You can also view the posts in the "Posts" tab

Importing to Wordpress:

Select Import from wordpress
Select file and click import
Select the user you want to map the posts to

File	Type	Description	Version Date	Dependencies
xanga_1.r	Rebol script	Object for saving xanga posts	August 24, 2007	rebol core or view
xanga_2.r	Rebol script	Revision 2 of xanga.r	January 2, 2009	rebol core or view
xanga_3.r	Rebol script	Revision 3	April 22, 2009	rebol core or view
xanga.r	Rebol script	Latest version of xanga.r	Sept. 18, 2009	rebol core or view
xword.r	Rebol script	GUI for xanga.r	August 24, 2007	rebol view, Rebgui, xanga.r
xword.exe	Binary Executable	Program for saving xanga posts to wordpress	August 24, 2007	Windows
xword	Binary Executable	Program for saving xanga posts to wordpress	May 19, 2007	Linux, X11

Version History:

May 18, 2007 - Original version posted
May 19, 2007 - Small bug fix
August 24, 2007 - Fix bug in comments, changed format for saving posts.r file and reading. Not compatible with older versions. Can change update file by running rebol script below updates.
```
rebol[]
posts: reduce load %posts.r
foreach post posts[post/comments: reduce post/comments]
save/all %posts.r posts
```
January 2, 2009 - Some formatting changes have happened on xanga, so I'm leaving the original and adding the new in case these changes aren't universal. The xword program only uses the old version though.
April 22, 2009 - Xanga changed their url scheme which messed up all the links in the script. This has been corrected in the latest xanga.r file.
September 18, 2009 - Xanga is now attaching the comment id number in the div tag. This version is simply has one line commented out.
```
;[thru <div class="ctext snap_preview"> | thru <div class="ctext">]
```