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 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 [1] "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," [2].

[edit] See also

• Internet bookmark

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

• Official XBEL Site
• XBEL-Specs mailing list
• XBEL Resource Page on Sourceforge
• Python XML Special Interest Group
• XBView - Drupal module to display bookmarks from XBEL
• Bookmark Sync and Sort - Firefox extension to synchronize bookmarks
• BookKit plugin - BookKit FireFox plugin + online bookmark manager

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