Anne van Kesteren

Archiving good old Blogger

This morning was the right time, I thought. I took my old Blogger archives (Dutch) and made them standard-compliant. Most was, but there were some acronyms and abbreviations to fix. With a lot of search and replace I'm pretty proud of what I achieved in an hour or two.

There may come more Dutch articles on that page or anything related (In Dutch). I will mention it on this blog if something "big" changes back there. For now, Dutch people have something to read. Out of date information: Great!

Comments

  1. Any tips on how to work through hundreds of malformed XHTML posts? My archive dates back to 2000 and since application/xhtml+xml is served, the oldest items are fucked up in Mozilla (e.g. demuynck.org/item/44).

    An XML-RPC validation and repair tool for XHTML snippets would be nice :) If you ever find one of those, let me know.

    Posted by karma at

  2. There are things to validate XML (I spammed the Nuclues Forum with it), but I don't know about repairing those errors. Simon Willison does it one someone reports a problem with one of his "dynamic pages". You could do the same.

    Or you could walk back the hundred latest items. I found errors in item 32, 33, 40, 57-60. Let me guess with you're doing this evening :p.

    Posted by Anne at

  3. I had this good intentions before (demuynck.org/item/3573) but never got to it :)

    Posted by karma at

  4. Only visible in Mozilla? That is so last century! (Remember the browser wars?) Whatever happened to graceful degradation?

    Posted by Ben de Groot at

  5. Sorry, I think I wrote that the wrong way. I'll edit it.

    Posted by Anne at

  6. OK, now I understand. That's living on the (cutting) edge. Which cuts off a large part of your possible audience. But maybe that will urge them to finally get a better browser!

    Posted by Ben de Groot at

  7. I've been playing around with that PHP tool from Simon Willison. I came up with a tool that checks 100 of my nucleus entries at a time.

    Code is at: http://demuynck.org/temp/va..., http://demuynck.org/temp/va....

    (code is to be run from example.com/nucleus/validate)

    Sample of output is at: http://demuynck.org/temp/va...

    I've put some auto-fixes in it, to make my work a little easier.

    Posted by karma at

  8. aargh, there was an error in the code that messed up the entry when autoreplace happened :( Glad I have a backup

    Posted by karma at

  9. hey.. can u tell me how to archive? thanks

    Posted by gen at