Movable Type and importing original Radio -assigned Categories

The Radio export I got from TechnoWeenie (that’s really the name of the Blog) worked,  but I don’t know what to do to get the Categories included,  since Radio created separate xml files for each category which included a list in the XML of which Radio post IDs belong to that category:


Sample:


<table name=”For Sale”>
 <date name=”dateLastUpload” value=”Fri, 25 Apr 2003 04:28:24 GMT”/>
 <string name=”description” value=”Stuff for Sale”/>
 <string name=”displayName” value=”For Sale”/>
 <string name=”fileName” value=”forSale”/>
 <boolean name=”flNotifyWeblogsCom” value=”true”/>
 <boolean name=”flRenderHtml” value=”true”/>
 <string name=”htmlUrl” value=”http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/forSale/”/>
 <string name=”language” value=”en-us”/>
 <string name=”lastThemeApplied” value=”discreetRadioBlogBlack”/>
 <string name=”rssUrl” value=”http://theoblogical.org/dlature/categories/forSale/rss.xml”/>
 <list name=”storyList”>
  <long value=”1310″/>
  <long value=”1313″/>
  <long value=”1315″/>
  <long value=”1311″/>
  <long value=”1316″/>
  <long value=”1317″/>
  <long value=”1312″/>
  <long value=”1320″/>
  <long value=”1319″/>
  <long value=”1314″/>
  <long value=”1318″/>
  </list>
 <table name=”theme”>
  <string name=”archiveLinkImgTag” value=”&lt;%radio.macros.imageref (&quot;images/bryanBell/discreetBlogBlack/blackPermaLink.gif&quot;)%&gt;”/>
  <string name=”enclosureImgTag” value=”&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/sound.gif&quot; height=&quot;11&quot; width=&quot;10&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;”/>
  <string name=”itemPermaLinkImgTag” value=”&lt;%radio.macros.imageref (&quot;images/woodsItemLink.gif&quot;)%&gt;”/>
  <table name=”navigator”>
   <string name=”itemFormat” value=”&lt;%item%&gt;”/>
   <string name=”separatorFormat” value=”&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;”/>
   </table>
  <string name=”sourceImgTag” value=”&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/source.gif&quot; height=&quot;13&quot; width=&quot;22&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;”/>
  </table>
 </table>


Seems like there would be a way to apply the storyList values to the MT database that’s in MySQL,  and change all the categories of those posts,  that is,  if MT hasn’t assigned new numbers (which it probably did….)   more in a minute after I look into the specifics of this

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