XBEL_PARSE(1) User's Manual XBEL_PARSE(1)NAMExbel_parse - a simple utility to convert XBEL files to a bookmark file
SYNOPSISxbel_parse OPTION
DESCRIPTION
The XML Bookmark Exchange Language, or XBEL, is an Internet "bookmarks"
interchange format. xbel_parse parses XBEL files and generates a valid
bookmark file for the specified browser.
USAGExbel_parse only reads from stdin. In addition, one of the following
options must be specified. The output is printed to stdout.
OPTIONS
You must specify one of the following options:
--opera
Generate a bookmark file for Opera
--netscape
Generate a bookmark file for Netscape
--msie Generate a bookmark file for Internet Explorer
--lynx [directory]
Generate a bookmark file for Lynx, and optionally write the file
to the specified directory
--xbel Generate XBEL file
EXAMPLE
$> ns_parse nsbookmarks xbel.file
$> cat xbel.file | xbel_parse--netscape > nsbookmarks.2
REQUIRES
Python
SEE ALSOadr_parse(1), msie_parse(1), lynx(1), lynx_parse(1), ns_parse(1),
xbel_parse(1), xbel2html(1)
http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/
AUTHOR
Python XML Special Interest Group (XML-SIG)
This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> as
part of "The Missing Man Pages Project". Please see http://www.net‐
meister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html for details.
xbel-utils August 15, 2001 XBEL_PARSE(1)