Re: Help with migrating blog to org-mode format

[Myriam Abramson <mabramson@gmail.com>]

Thanks! that's what I was looking for. 

                                   myriam

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> Myriam Abramson <mabramson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Each topic in a blog is a TODO task and the date is inserted when the
>> task is DONE. I'm planning to read from my xml blog and write topics
>> simply as "* DONE mytopic ... " but how can I get the publication date
>> in org to get "CLOSED: <date>" on the next line? 
>>
>> The xml of my blog is something like that: 
>>
>> <title type='text'> my title</title>
>> <content type='html'> my content</content>
>> <published>2003-10-22T18:27:00.000-04:00</published>
>>
>
> After you've parsed the xml and retrieved the date string, you can
> convert to an org CLOSED timestamp with something like this:
>
> (format-time-string "CLOSED: [%Y-%m-%d %H:%M]" (date-to-time "2003-10-22T18:27:00.000-04:00"))
>
> ...which returns...
>
> CLOSED: [2003-10-22 14:27]
>
> (The time zone parsing may need some adjustment.)
>
> HTH,
> Matt