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'''XBEL''', or the '''XML Bookmark Exchange Language''', is an open [[XML]] standard for sharing Internet [[Uniform Resource Identifier|URI]]s, also known as ''[[Internet bookmark|bookmark]]s'' (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]] and [[Konqueror]] 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|XOXO (eXtensible Open XHTML Outlines)]], an XML microformat for outlines built on top of XHTML.
* [[OPML|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
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