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

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Hi Sotiris,

# Evaluating usability for XML
Im at the exploratory stage, so your citation provided good validation.

A Guix user, I havent (yet) had direct access to Amfora. Packaging in Go is now easier, so I can use it. Once this thread goes cold I will contact the XBEL mailing list to update them re Gemini usecases via xml-sig at python.org
=> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig xml-sig -- Python XML Special Interest Group

FWIW, I do agree with those emphasising an inhouse Gemini solution (especially as I enjoy parsing). 
I similarly could rely on eLinks own approach to bookmarking
=> https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/blob/master/doc/bookmarks.txt [eLinks] The Ultimate Bookmarks Guide

However, I wanted to approach it in a way to fit a broader body of users and usecases. Besides, I feel that XML's design style provides an interesting counterpoint to that of .gmi files.

# In body references
FYI, I recently made some enquiries on the ML regarding in body URI references
=> https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/thread.html#6684 In Body URI references

I may explore citation areas for .gmi content - solving the aforementioned problem through providing the classic Gemini links and also references, with a footer citation block containing further meta data. 

Kind regards,


Jonathan

June 29, 2021 7:12 PM, "Sotiris Papatheodorou" <sotiris at papatheodorou.xyz> wrote:

> 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