Marcus Kazmierczak

Convert Safari bookmarks to Firebird

Date: Jan 2, 2004

One of those rare good uses of XML, Peter Rukavina wrote an XSLT stylesheet to transform Safari XML bookmarks to the HTML format that Firebird (and Mozilla/Netscape) uses.

I improved on it a little and resubmited it back to Peter who included the changes. So if you were looking for a way to convert Safari bookmarks, which can be iSynced, to Firebird, look no more. Download from here.

Peter explains how to use TextXSLT to perform the transform. I prefer a command-line tool and use xsltproc. I’ve had success using the Mac OS X binaries from the Zveno site

Once downloaded and installed convert using:

$ xsltproc STYLESHEET.xslt XMLFILE.xml >output