Rob Garfoot's Blog

I used the BlogML importer plugin from http://dillieodigital.net/2010/07/03/blogml-importer to import my BlogML from Subtext. However the output from Subtext included Base64 encoded content so I wrote a little C# application to convert the Base64 decode the content before importing it.

The source code is below, the usual caveats about if it blows up your computer don’t blame me etc. apply.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace UnBase64BlogML
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(@"blogml-b64.xml");
            XNamespace blogML = "http://www.blogml.com/2006/09/BlogML";

            var query = doc.Descendants(blogML + "content")
                .Where(node => (string) node.Attribute("type") == "base64");
            foreach(var item in query)
            {
                string content = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Convert.FromBase64String(item.Value));

                item.SetValue(content);
            }

            doc.Save(@"blogml.xml");

            Console.WriteLine("Press a key to continue");
            Console.ReadKey(true);
        }
    }
}

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