swiftone, this sounds like a very interesting project. I'm sure I'm not the only monk that'd like to see the source when you get the script done.

Converting legacy formats to modern formats such as HTML and XML is an area that I consider Perl would shine in, and this area is only going to become more popular.

BTW swiftone, I know exactly what you mean about HTML generated by some progams. How many times have you seen junk like:

<b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b>

in auto-generated HTML? Stallman certainly had it right when he decided to classify certain machine-generated HTML as an "opaque" format under the Free Documentation License. Plus I also imagine that using HTML generated by WP would make the cross-referencing harder. And would it even be possible to save them under programmatic control? Doubt it.