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Subject: Re: Help with migrating blog to org-mode format
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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