Migration

abhishek_gupta

Hi,

There are a few hundred HTML pages of which we have created a TeamSite template. Now we need to convert all these existing HTML pages into the DCR format. Is there any tool or any other way via which we can convert all the existing HTML pages into the DCR format.

I have gone thru the Content_migration_best_practices.pdf file provided by Interwoven, but couldnt find any solution to my problem.

Thanks,
Abhishek

jbonifaci

Are all of the html files you are converting created from a template?

If so, you should be able to write a perl script to read in every html file, strip out the info that is custom to each html page and then output the xml for the dcr with the values inserted.

What you basically need to do is look at all of the pages and see if there is a way to identify the location within the html of all the information you want to strip out that is common to all of the files. Then write a perl script to look for these identifiers and strip out the values between them. You then insert the stripped out values into your xml when you output it. I've done this several times at different clients and my conversion percentages have been around 96-99%, the remaining files needing to be converted by hand.

If all of the html pages were created following no template or guidelines, the pages probably aren't good candidates for automated conversion. This really depends on the complexity of the template and html though. If your template is as simple as having only title and body elements, you should be able to strip out the title and body elements from any html page easily. If your template has 50 different fields and replicants, you probably won't be able to strip out all of the information from an html page, unless it followed a strict template.

Jeff Bonifaci