SYNOPSIS

  use Glib;

  $date .= $_ while (<DATA>);

  $b = Glib::BookmarkFile->new;
  $b->load_from_data($data);
  $uri = 'file:///some/path/to/a/file.txt';
  if ($b->has_item($uri)) {
        $title = $b->get_title($uri);
        $desc  = $b->get_description($uri);

        print "Bookmark for `$uri' ($title):\n";
        print "  $desc\n";
  }
  0;

  __DATA__
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <xbel version="1.0"
        xmlns:bookmark="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-bookmarks"
        xmlns:mime="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
    <bookmark href="file:///tmp/test-file.txt" added="2006-03-22T18:54:00Z" modified="2006-03-22T18:54:00Z" visited="2006-03-22T18:54:00Z">
      <title>Test File</title>
      <desc>Some test file</desc>
      <info>
        <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
          <mime:mime-type type="text/plain"/>
          <bookmark:applications>
            <bookmark:application name="Gedit" exec="gedit %u" timestamp="1143053640" count="1"/>
          </bookmark:applications>
        </metadata>
      </info>
    </bookmark>
  </xbel>

DESCRIPTION

Glib::BookmarkFile lets you parse, edit or create files containing lists of bookmarks to resources pointed to by URIs, with some meta-data bound to them, following the Desktop Bookmark Specification. The recent files support inside GTK+ uses this type of files to store the list of recently used files.

The syntax of bookmark files is described in detail in the Desktop Bookmarks Specification, here is a quick summary: bookmark files use a subclass of the XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL) document format, defining meta-data such as the MIME type of the resource pointed by a bookmark, the list of applications that have registered the same URI and the visibility of the bookmark.

Parses a bookmark file, searching for it inside the data directories. If a file is found, it returns the full path.

Every bookmark inside a Glib::BookmarkFile must have at least an application registered. Each application must provide a name, a command line useful for launching the bookmark, the number of times the bookmark has been registered by the application and the last time the application registered this bookmark.

If $name is undef, the name of the application will be the same returned by Glib::get_application_name(); if $exec is undef, the command line will be a composition of the program name as returned by Glib::get_prgname() and the "%u" modifier, which will be expanded to the bookmark's URI.

This function will automatically take care of updating the registrations count and timestamping in case an application with the same $name had already registered a bookmark for $uri inside the bookmark file. If no bookmark for $uri is found one is created.

You should rarely use this method; use Glib::BookmarkFile::add_application() and Glib::BookmarkFile::remove_application() instead.

$name can be any UTF-8 encoded string used to identify an application. $exec can have one of these two modifiers: "%f", which will be expanded as the local file name retrieved from the bookmark's URI; "%u", which will be expanded as the bookmark's URI. The expansion is done automatically when retrieving the stored command line using the Glib::BookmarkFile::get_app_info() method. $count is the number of times the application has registered the bookmark; if it is < 0, the current registration count will be increased by one, if it is 0, the application with $name will be removed from the list of registered applications. $stamp is the Unix time of the last registration, as returned by time(); if it is -1, the current time will be used.

If you try to remove an application by setting its registration count to zero, and no bookmark for $uri is found, %FALSE is returned and an exception is fired.