old_contents: #! /usr/bin/env python
  
  from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
  from codecs import open
  import os
  import argparse
  
  def wp2html(xml):
      xmlfile = open(xml, encoding='utf-8').read()
      soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xmlfile)
      items = soup.rss.channel.findAll('item')
  
      for item in items:
          if item.fetch('wp:status')[0].contents[0] == "publish":
              title = item.title.contents[0]
              content = item.fetch('content:encoded')[0].contents[0]
              filename = item.fetch('wp:post_name')[0].contents[0]
              yield (title, content, filename)
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""Transform a wordpress xml export into rst files """)
  
      parser.add_argument(dest='xml', help='The xml filepath')
      parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', dest='output', default='output', help='Output path')
      args = parser.parse_args() 
  
      for title, content, filename in wp2html(args.xml): 
          html_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.html')
          rst_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.rst')
  
          with open(html_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
              fp.write(content)
          os.system('pandoc --from=html --to=rst -o %s %s' % (rst_filename,
              html_filename))
  
new_contents: #! /usr/bin/env python
  
  from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
  from codecs import open
  import os
  import argparse
  
  def wp2html(xml):
      xmlfile = open(xml, encoding='utf-8').read()
      soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xmlfile)
      items = soup.rss.channel.findAll('item')
  
      for item in items:
          if item.fetch('wp:status')[0].contents[0] == "publish":
              title = item.title.contents[0]
              content = item.fetch('content:encoded')[0].contents[0]
              filename = item.fetch('wp:post_name')[0].contents[0]
              date = item.fetch('wp:post_date')[0].contents[0]
              author = item.fetch('dc:creator')[0].contents[0].title()
              yield (title, content, filename, date, author)
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""Transform a wordpress xml export into rst files """)
  
      parser.add_argument(dest='xml', help='The xml filepath')
      parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', dest='output', default='output', help='Output path')
      args = parser.parse_args() 
  
      for title, content, filename, date, author in wp2html(args.xml): 
          html_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.html')
          rst_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.rst')
  
          with open(html_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
              fp.write(content)
          os.system('pandoc --from=html --to=rst -o %s %s' % (rst_filename,
              html_filename))
          with open(rst_filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fs:
              content = fs.read()
          with open(rst_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fs:
              header = '%s\n%s\n\n:date: %s\n:author: %s\n\n' % (title, '#' * len(title) ,date, author)
              fs.write(header+content)
  
subject: Update wp2pelican script to extract date and author taken from wordpress xml file.