Extracting text from the iWeb Domain file

Hi Folks
We used iWeb to run our travel diary when we were travelling last year, I now want to take all our diary entries and add them into another website I'm building. I'm aware that I can fire up iWeb and just copy and paste the text but with over nine months of diary entries it's going to be a laborious task and quite frankly I'd rather have root canal work!
Surely I must be able to extract the text or the daily entries from the Domain file, I just don't know how.
Does anyone out there know or have any ideas how it can be done?
Many thanks
Potterman
17" Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

You need only use a browser to copy text.
Open the page in a browser and drag the cursor across the text portion. Once highlighted Command-C to copy.
Use paste Command-V to add the text into the other software or html files. You could even just paste the whole shebang into one large TextEdit file to add at your leisure.
Even hundreds of pages would only take an hour. It would take longer than that to open iWeb, then each page then copy and switch to another app.
Of course this will only work if the source really is text. iWeb has a habit of converting text to .png files when Web safe fonts are not used.

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Omran A: Correct?
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Omran A: I apologize for the inconvenience.
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Omran A: Thank you
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