Some supporting software is provided as part of the Python XML
"omnibus" package. This software is located in the demo/xbel/ directory of
the distribution. This includes command-line processes for converting XBEL
instances to other common formats, including the Navigator and Internet
Explorer formats. The following bookmarks refer to other XBEL
software.
XBELicious is a set of scripts to help you store your
del.icio.us bookmarks in XBEL format and to mold those bookmarks into
a hierarchy of folders based partly upon the tags that you have given
to those bookmarks.
Ken Schenke's BookmarkBridge is an open source bookmark
management tool. It is used to merge bookmarks from different
browsers, and uses Python for at least a portion of it's regression
testing.
David Faure (faure@kde.com) has made XBEL the bookmarks format
for Konqueror, the KDE web browser since KDE 2.1. KDE also features a
separate application to edit XBEL bookmarks, keditbookmarks.
ELinks, ad advanced text WWW browser, has built-in XBEL
bookmarks support. Basic bookmarks operations (same as in the native
format) and conversion from/to native ELinks' bookmarks format.
Alco Blom's URL Manager Pro, a Mac OS shareware application for
managing bookmarks, supports reading files in the XBEL format. See the
home page of URL Manager Pro for more information.
Favorez is an AxtiveX IE 5+ plug-in program that creates web
pages from the users' favorites. It uses XBEL, and includes an XSLT
stylsheet for converting XBEL to a dynamic folder-based view.
Roberto Giungato (roberto.giungato@its.it) has created a PHP
script to parse XBEL and a Compass template that maintains foldering
information. See his home page for more information.
Rowan Rodrik has a collection of XBEL tools, including a set of
XSLT sheets to transform an XBEL file to a directory of XHTML files or
one, big monolithic XHTML file; and an XSLT sheet to alphabetically
sort an XBEL file.
XBEL Bookmarks Editor is "a platform and browser bookmark
representation that allows content-based retrieval. A platform
[independent] application [for easy] bookmark [management]."