need a tool to convert galeon bookmarks to mozilla

I'm considering going to mozilla from galeon or at
least using them both. Where can I find a tool
to convert xbel into html bookmarks?

I tried xbel2html.py from the python xml tools but
it doesn't seem to work completely in this usage
because it's a general purpose tool, what I need
is something that specially converts galeon xbel
into firefox/mozilla html.
thanks,
Mark

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 00:51:02 -0400, Mark <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>
>
> I'm considering going to mozilla from galeon or at
> least using them both. Where can I find a tool
> to convert xbel into html bookmarks?
>
> I tried xbel2html.py from the python xml tools but
> it doesn't seem to work completely in this usage
> because it's a general purpose tool, what I need
> is something that specially converts galeon xbel
> into firefox/mozilla html.
> thanks,
> Mark

Debian has the xbel-utils package for this purpose.

It contains several utilities.

I'd find it at debian.org and then run the individual
utilities down at sourceforge or freshmeat.

(the search program on the packages page is ace)

Or as a package for whatever distro use.

If you run Debian, just do

# apt-get install xbel-utils

AC

>
> Debian has the xbel-utils package for this purpose.
>
> It contains several utilities.
>
> I'd find it at debian.org and then run the individual
> utilities down at sourceforge or freshmeat.
>
> (the search program on the packages page is ace)
>
> Or as a package for whatever distro use.
>
> If you run Debian, just do
>
> # apt-get install xbel-utils
>
> AC

seems I found it at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.p...c/xbel2html.py

It doesn't seem to completely do the conversion correctly,
when I run a copy of my galeon bookmarks.xbel file thru it and
use it with firefox, most of the bookmarks are missing. Any idea
why? When I take a good mozilla/firefox bookmarks.html file and
this created one, I see some differences in formatting.

Mark

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:43:32 -0400, Mark <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>
>
>>
>> Debian has the xbel-utils package for this purpose.
>>
>> It contains several utilities.
>>
>> I'd find it at debian.org and then run the individual
>> utilities down at sourceforge or freshmeat.
>>
>> (the search program on the packages page is ace)
>>
>> Or as a package for whatever distro use.
>>
>> If you run Debian, just do
>>
>> # apt-get install xbel-utils
>>
>> AC
>
> seems I found it at:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.p...c/xbel2html.py
>
> It doesn't seem to completely do the conversion correctly,
> when I run a copy of my galeon bookmarks.xbel file thru it and
> use it with firefox, most of the bookmarks are missing. Any idea
> why? When I take a good mozilla/firefox bookmarks.html file and
> this created one, I see some differences in formatting.
>
> Mark
>

What do the xbel bookmarks look like? Seems like this is a job for
a simple shell script using sed or awk.

I use one to copy new w3m (textmode browser) bookmarks to my mozilla
bookmark file when I close it down, and there wasn't much to it.

Isn't XML just a variant of HTML? It's all ascii text, right?

If this approach interests you, then post to comp.unix.shell and
comp.lang.awk (cross-post), including samples from the xbel
bookmarks.

Mozilla bookmarks can just be:

<TD><A HREF="http://groups.google.com">Google Groups</A>

AC