XBEL
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The XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL), is an open
bookmarks (or favorites in Internet Explorer
).
An example of XBEL use is the XBELicious application, which stores
Midori web browsers use XBEL as the format for storing user bookmarks. The Floccus synchronization client can store XBEL on WebDAV servers. The SiteBar
bookmark server can import and export bookmarks in XBEL format.
XBEL was created by the Python XML Special Interest Group "to create an interesting, fun project which was both useful and would demonstrate the Python XML processing software which was being developed at the time".[1]
It is also used by
desktop environment.Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xbel>
<xbel version="1.0">
<folder folded="no">
<title>Wikimedia resources</title>
<folder folded="yes">
<title>Wikimedia websites</title>
<bookmark href="https://en.wikipedia.org/">
<title>Wikipedia</title>
</bookmark>
<bookmark href="https://en.wikibooks.org/">
<title>Wikibooks</title>
</bookmark>
</folder>
</folder>
</xbel>
See also
- Internet bookmark
- XOXO (eXtensible Open XHTML Outlines), an XML microformat for outlines built on top of XHTML.
- OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), an XML format for outlines.
References
External links
- Official website
- XBEL-Specs mailing list
- XBEL at SourceForge
- Python XML Special Interest Group