Tools That Employ LDIF
The OpenLDAP utilities include tools for exporting data from LDAP servers to LDIF content records (ldapsearch), importing data from LDIF content records to LDAP servers (ldapadd), and applying LDIF change records to LDAP servers (ldapmodify).
LDIF is one of the formats for importing and exporting address book data that the address books in Netscape Communicator and in the Mozilla Application Suite support. Yahoo! Mail does not encode certain characters properly when one exports their Yahoo! address book in LDIF format. For example, ampersand (&) is encoded as an HTML Extended Character (&) instead of the ampersand character. As a result, when the LDIF file is imported into Thunderbird, for example, a text phrase like "John & Jane Doe" comes out in one's address book as "John & Jane Doe". The only corrective means at the moment is manually editing the address book after an Import.
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 include an LDIF based command line tool named LDIFDE for importing and exporting information in Active Directory.
JXplorer is a cross platform open source java application that can browse and do basic editing of LDIF files.
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