I am in the process of converting an old html site to WordPress. The old site has categories that exist as links. I would like to convert them to Categories on the page. I am wondering if there is some way to go through the old and convert tags of html into pieces of code that would register as tags when pasted into WordPress.

The html tags are fairly simple. The Categories created in WordPress <li class=”cat-item cat-item-19″><a href=”http:/ etc etc”. In theory it should be fairly easy to convert one to the other using an html tag converter and they would be read as tags once the page converts to WordPress.

Is that something that is possible? Or am I totally with the fairies in even dream up such a scheme?