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Well the good thing about xml is, that you can write a converter since you are simply reading in the files and adjusting then saving backout to gs format.

With another format we have to do alot of massaging of the data to extract the title, body, etc, if even possible.

perhaps you could post an example of one of these docs you have

howdy shawn...
i've attached a sample of what i do..
there are between 4 and 500 of these short stories that i am dealing with - or you can just look at what i've started to do on my site (badlydrawnstickman.com).
given the 6-of-one/half-dozen-of-the-other nature of this as i was saying to yojoe above, i've started the manual process (re-upping everything) but i gotta say that it is dead slow to do. so far, i've managed to do most of 2011... HA!
*edit*
i just had a think about this and had another silly idea.
what if i used a spreadsheet to re-create the database?
it would make insertion of markup and tags simple/repetitive (copy/paste) and, at the end, export as text and rename the file to XML. am i off the deep-end (again)?
*edit*
any advice is warmly appreciated.
cheers!