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2.) We'll be using the "blogbackup" example in the Blogapps project (based originally on the source code for from the RSS and Atom in Action book) to do a Roller backup. Do an SVN checkout of the examples:

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3.) In src/org/blogapps/blogbackup/blogbackup.java, place in the following line at line #43. It will skip any blog entries in draft status (i.e., those that haven't been published yet), avoiding an NPE two lines later in the code. (There's a JIRA item pending to make this change to the SVN trunk.)

BlogEntry entry = (BlogEntry)entries.next();
Date pubDate = entry.getPublicationDate();
if (pubDate == null) continue; <-- add this line
SimpleDateFormat format8 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd-HHmm");
String dateString = format8.format(pubDate);

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