• How Percent of My Blog Content Can Be Moved By BlogML?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    The answer varies based on your source and destination blogging engine and their features and also your use of these features. We try to support all common features of blogging tools in BlogML and also provide extensibility points to include other features as well. This percent depends on the power of...

  • How Can I Validate My BlogML File Against BlogML Schema?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    Validating your BlogML files against the appropriate BlogML schema version is a main requirement for you to be able to use BlogML. To validate a BlogML file, you need the appropriate BlogML schema which is available as a part of download package for each version of BlogML as well a validation tool. There...

  • What is BlogML Schema?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    XML schema is a way to define the structure of an XML file. There are three ways to do this via XSD schemas, DTD and Relax NG. However, XSD schemas are more common and this is the way that we define our BlogML specification as well. BlogML has an XSD schema for each version that we publish as a part...

  • How Can I Create a BlogML Tool?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    This needs some requirements. First of all you have to have enough experiences with software development and the technology that is used for your source and destination blogging tools. If you have this requirement, then you can check out current BlogML tools and read our specification and documentation...

  • How Can I Find a BlogML Tool for My Blogging Engine?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    As long as a tool passes some tests successfully and gets good feedbacks, we announce it here on this site and will add it to our project downloads so you can search on this site to see if there is a BlogML tool for your engine. But you have to know that BlogML tools are created for all well-known blogging...

  • What is a BlogML Tool?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    A BlogML tool is actually a converter designed specifically for a blogging engine and is able to export the content of that blog engine into BlogML format or import BlogML content to that blogging engine. We consider a tool as a BlogML tool under two conditions: The tool should have both import and export...

  • What I Need to Use BlogML?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    In general there are some main requirements for you: Having access to your source and destination blogging tools. Some BlogML tools require you to install something on the server so this may be a problem if you're hosted by someone who doesn't like BlogML and doesn't install it for you! A BlogML tool...

  • Is BlogML Tied to .NET Platform?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    No, not at all! This is a wrong consideration from some people who think that BlogML is tied to .NET platform. BlogML is an XML format and has its own specification that can be implemented for all development platforms. However, as we (creators of BlogML) are .NET developers, created a rich library for...

  • Is BlogML Created Only for Migration Between Blogging Engines?


    By Keyvan Nayyeri

    No, the answer is negative! Although BlogML has been used for this purpose in most scenarios and this can be the most common application of BlogML but BlogML is a more general thing and that is an XML format for blog content. This means that every application for such a format can be an application for...

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