Hi James,
Bravo. I was one of those unlucky souls who spent years begging Kaylon and Yahoo [1] and the lazyweb in general to create a Powermarks-Delicious importer. (I think -- and suggested -- Kaylon could've extended Powermarks' lifespan as a product by updating it to sync to Delicious, but to no avail.)
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/message/215You seem to have succeeded where I failed. It looks like your method loses the bookmark creation date, however, which I considered of vital importance.
What I ended up doing was to import my bookmarks into Netvouz.com, a lower-tier online bookmarking service, whose creator wrote a Powermarks importer. (Why couldn't Delicious?) This has served me well enough over the last 2 years, but it's not being actively developed, doesn't have an API, so I still would prefer being on Delicious.
So, I still have a problem. Netvouz claims to export bookmarks in Delicious-compatible format, but when I attempted to import that into Delicious, the tags get messed up (connected with
underscores), probably due to bad markup in the bookmark file. I could probably fix it myself if I knew what it needed to look like.
Delicious "customer care" has been hopeless. I have asked them to provide me with an example of correct markup for a Delicious bookmark, but I've never received anything back except boilerplate "We have escalated this to our Engineering Department and hope that it will be resolved soon."
Anyway, I realise this is somewhat irrelevant to your original post. But do you, by any chance, have an example of bookmark HTML that Delicious imports correctly?
Regards,
francois
