Ross Gardler wrote:
>> Ferdinand Soethe wrote:
>> Good point. However, I don't think OAI has a "minimal" form, I did some
>> preliminary research into it a few months ago. Let me check it out, I'll
>> report back.
>>
>> However, I'd still like to see support for Google sitemaps since we can
>> do it very quickly and it is more "approachable" than OAI since everyone
>> knows Google.
>>
>> If we go for the Google format, I'd like to suggest to use slightly
>> more than the minimum format in this form (as documented in
>>
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html)
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <urlset xmlns="
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
>> <url>
>> <loc>http://www.yoursite.com/catalog?item=83&desc=vacation_usa
</loc>
>> <lastmod>2004-11-23</lastmod>
>> </url>
>> </urlset>
>>
>> and include the 'lastmod' right away as that would be the key to speedy
>> updates. Can we do that?
Why not use rss2.0 as the format http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/other.html#feed
?
> I'd recomend getting the minimal done, then looking at a way of getting
> the lastmod as well.
What do you consider the minimal? In rss <pubDate> and <link> ?
>> Did you see that Google wants the urls to be url encoded? Does our
>> XSLT-engine have a function for that?
>
> http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/encode-uri/index.html
Why not use the
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/transformers/encodeurl-transformer.html?
Regards,
Rus
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