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I have a simple sitemap that has code like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>home page link</loc>
<title>East Randolph Cabinet Shop</title>
<level>level-1</level>
</url>
.
.
</urlset>
I can easily transform to display the way I want on a webpage with the follow xsl:
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:sm="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<xsl:template match="/">
<h2>Sitemap</h2>
<p>You can use our sitemap to easily navigate to any section of our website. If you still cannot find the information you need don't hesitate to <a href="contact.php">contact</a> us.</p>
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="sm:urlset/sm:url">
<li class="{sm:level}">
<a href="{sm:loc}"><xsl:value-of select="sm:title"/></a>
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The problem is that when I test my sitemap with google it gives me warnings for all the unrecognized tags (title and level). Can I rewrite the xml to use attributes for each instead of unrecognized tags to where it would look something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc title='East Randolph Cabinet Shop' level='level-1'>home page link</loc>
</url>
.
.
</urlset>
I've tested this with google and get no warnings or errors. My question is how would I rewrite the xsl to where it would display in html the same way as before?
501
This is a small adjustment of the provided transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:sm="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<h2>Sitemap</h2>
<p>You can use our sitemap to easily navigate to any section of our website. If you still cannot find the information you need don't hesitate to <a href="contact.php">contact</a> us.</p>
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="sm:urlset/sm:url/sm:loc">
<li class="{@level}">
<a href="{.}"><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></a>
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When this transformation is applied on the provided "google-compliant" sitemap XML document:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc title='East Randolph Cabinet Shop' level='level-1'>home page link</loc>
</url>
.
.
</urlset>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
<html xmlns:sm="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<h2>Sitemap</h2>
<p>You can use our sitemap to easily navigate to any section of our website. If you still cannot find the information you need
don't hesitate to <a href="contact.php">contact</a> us.
</p>
<ul>
<li class="level-1"><a href="home page link">East Randolph Cabinet Shop</a></li>
</ul>
</html>
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