Anyone else looking at Frame >> WordPress (as a CMS)

[Art Campbell]

Jeremy, the tool I'm playing with converts a directory of RTF files
into clean HTML, but then performs a second step of parsing each file
into a format that can be pulled into a SQL database -- hence the CSV
format for the lowest common denominator DB format...

Yes, you can cut and paste HTML into Wordpress pretty easily. One file
at a time. You have several hundred or thousand to do, it could be a
little wearing...

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:23:18 -0400, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>The workflow seems to be (unstructured):
>>
>>1. From Frame, SaveAs (I'm using MIF2Go) as RTF.
>>2. Batch-convert the RTF to clean HTML or XHTML.
>
> That doesn't make sense to me.  Why have Mif2Go make
> RTF, with very different requirements than HTML, and
> then use something else to make the clean HTML/XHTML
> you can have Mif2Go make in the first place?
>
> I hope the intermediate step isn't using Word, which
> produces horrible HTML.  But Word is what our RTF is
> tuned for...
>
>>3. Save/export into a comma-separated value (CSV) file.
>>4. Import the CSV into WordPress, assigning tags, categories, post
>>types and other bits and pieces on import.
>
> WordPress doesn't import HTML?  CSV is a very old and
> limited format...  Does WordPress use it internally,
> or does it use its own XML format, as I'd expect?
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/
>