Converting OmniWeb Bookmarks to XBEL (for WebNoteHappy)

Posted on May 29, 2006 by schwa

Long title, small program.

WebNoteHappy is my new favourite bookmark manager. Unfortunately version 1.0 doesn’t import OmniWeb (a browser for which I have had a tempestuous on again/off again love affair for several years). I happen to know that forthcoming versions of WebNoteHappy will support OmniWeb amongst other browser but I am all about instant-gratification.

So newly checked into my new subversion repository (which now seems to be up and running fine) is OmniWebToXBEL (OmniWebToXBEL.zip). This shell script uses sed, tidy and xsltproc to convert the OmniWeb bookmarks file into an XBEL file. You can then import the XBEL document into WebNoteHappy.

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  • http://blog.bookmarkbase.net Alexander

    Is XBEL only Mac file format? Has it any use on Win?

  • http://toxicsoftware.com/ schwa

    It is platform neutral. See http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/

  • http://blog.bookmarkbase.net/ Alexander

    Thanks!

    You gave me some food for thought… ;-)

  • http://blog.bookmarkbase.net Alexander

    Is XBEL only Mac file format? Has it any use on Win?

  • http://toxicsoftware.com/ schwa

    It is platform neutral. See http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/

  • http://blog.bookmarkbase.net/ Alexander

    Thanks!

    You gave me some food for thought… ;-)

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  • http://blog.bookmarkbase.net/development/dozens-of-browsers/ Bookmark Base blog

    Dozens of browsers…

    For the first version “Bookmark Base” will support MS Inernet Explorer, Mozilla and Opera browsers. They are major players and supporting them is a most foreground task.
    Due to Jonathan Wight post about XBEL file format we decided to add i…

  • takaaki

    Have you talked to the developer of WebnoteHappy? I bet he’ll like what you did.

  • takaaki

    Have you talked to the developer of WebnoteHappy? I bet he'll like what you did.

  • http://toxicsoftware.com/ schwa

    Luis, the developer of WebnoteHappy is a friend of mine. We’ve discussed this before and am pretty sure it will be implemented soon.

  • http://toxicsoftware.com/ schwa

    Luis, the developer of WebnoteHappy is a friend of mine. We've discussed this before and am pretty sure it will be implemented soon.