Hi peeps,

I was wondering if there was any way to physically add a sitemap node to the web.sitemap xml file.

I am developing a content management system whereby I would like users to be edit content on existing pages but also to add new pages to their site.

There is a phyiscal aspx page that must exist (this page literally only consists of the page directive), there is also a record of each page in the database which contains its html content. At runtime, the Masterpage determines which page should be rendered by analysing the URL, then outputting the html content that is stored in the database. So to add a new page I just need to create a new aspx page and create a record in the database for it, but I would also want to add it to the sitemap so it appears in the navigation, does anyone know if this could be done?

 Thanks for reading :)

P.S I was also wondering if new empty directories could be created through code (C#), thanks everyone.

The sitemap is just a file, so you can open it an add text; you'd probably want to use some of the XML classes to make sure you add the node in the right place. Another alternative, which fits more neatly with a CMS, is to house the menu content within a database; you can still use the SiteMap and Menu by adding a SiteMapProvider that reads the site map data from a database I've written one (http://www.ipona.com/samples/ANV201%20-%20ASP.NET%202.0%20Navigation.zip), but there's also one in he Provider Toolkit (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336558.aspx), which is probably simpler than mine. The creation of new nodes then simply becomes the addition of a row into the database.

For creating files have a look at the System.IO namespace; there is a File class and FileInfo class, both of which have a Create method.

Dave

That's great Dave, thanks for your help.

I was thinking that it would be great to use a database to store sitemap info, and didn't realise you could extend the provider so easily.

I ended up implementing an Access Sitemap Provider which works good - I was a little confused at first as to how you could add custom providers but I should have looked into it earlier, for those who are unsure like I was, here's how to add an Access Sitemap Provider;

1) Go to this page http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178434(VS.80).aspx, copy the code in the relevant language into a new class in the App_Code folder and save it.

2) Create a new Access database and call it Sitemap.mdb (use the SQL code found in the link and paste in into the SQL view of a query, and execute - *NB for some reason I had to add my own Primary Key and change Int32 to just Int).

3) Add the provider information into your web.config file remember to include the full namespace in your type field.

I think I understand this pretty well now, so post to this thread if you think I can help.

Thanks again.