(f)eLinks, Gemini and The XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL)

[Sotiris Papatheodorou]

Hi Jonathan,

On 29 Jun 2021, Jonathan McHugh wrote:
> However, are there any people in the Gemini community currently:
> * Absorbing a lot of XML data in order to generate .gmi content?
> * Grapping .gmi content and extracting it into XML.

Amfora [1] uses XBEL to store bookmarks but that's where its usage of 
XML ends as far as I know. Not sure whether this is what you're looking 
for though.

[1] https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora

> I would assert that migrating data from HTML centric bookmarking to 
> Gemini centric bookmarking would be a win.

Using gemtext to store bookmarks in amfora was one of the proposals but 
XBEL seemed like a better fit for structured data [2].

[2] https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora/issues/68

Best regards,
Sotiris