XBEL

XBEL, or the XML Bookmark Exchange Language, is an open XML standard for sharing Internet URIs, also known as "bookmarks" (or "favorites" in Internet Explorer).

An example of XBEL use is the [http://xbel.sourceforge.net/2006/XBELicious/ XBELicious] application, which stores Del.icio.us bookmarks in XBEL format. The Galeon, Konqueror and Arora web browsers use XBEL as the format for storing user bookmarks.

XBEL was created by the Python XML Special Interest Group [http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/xml-sig/] "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," [http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/] .

See also

* Internet bookmark

Related or similar work

* 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.

External links

* [http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/ Official XBEL Site]
* [http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbel-specs XBEL-Specs mailing list]
* [http://xbel.sourceforge.net/ XBEL Resource Page on Sourceforge]
* [http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/xml-sig/ Python XML Special Interest Group]
* [http://drupal.org/project/xbview XBView] - Drupal module to display bookmarks from XBEL
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2367 Bookmark Sync and Sort] - Firefox extension to synchronize bookmarks