Can I use XSL to create a sitemap.xml?

[Steve100]

Hi I have a custom XML file which shows the structure of my website.

It is useful for showing navigation, A-Z, sitemap pages and centralising other information like metadata. An extract is shown here:

<item>
  <title>Home</title>
  <link>index.php</link>
  <keywords>Keywords for home page</keywords>
  <description>Decription for home page</description>
  <dateCreated>Tues, 28 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT</dateCreated>
  <dateModified>Tues, 28 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT</dateModified>  
</item>

I have called this file sitemap.xml. However it isn't in the format required by Google http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php (because I needed to add in extra stuff like metadata).

I was wondering can I add a stylesheet to sitemaps.xml e.g.

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="search_engine_sitemap.xsl"?>

And reformat sitemap.xml using this XSL:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" />

<xsl:template match="/">
  <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">    
    <url>
     <loc>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="/items//item" />
     </loc>
    </url>
  </urlset>
    
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="item">
  http://wwww.open.ac.uk/disability/<xsl:value-of select="link"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

[Daniel0]

No, that won't work. The XSL is just changing how it looks. You need the XML to be correct.

[Steve100]

Any idea how I could reformat this page to have the correct XML?

Maybe extract the information I need using PHP and write a new file or something?

Thanks

[Daniel0]

How do you generate the sitemap now? Can't you just modify that script? If it's static then you can just insert it manually.

[Steve100]

The sitemap I produce is HTML embedded in a php page (using XML and XSL) using this code:

[code]

// display sitemap
function sitemap() {
// define the XSL
$load_xsl = 'xml/sitemap.xsl';

// load XML and XSL files
load_XML($load_xsl);
}

// load XML and XSL files
function load_XML($load_xsl) {
// work out the page name
$this_page = get_page();

// load the XML
$xml = new DOMDocument;
$xml->load('xml/sitemap.xml');
$xsl = new DOMDocument;

// load the XSL
$xsl->load($load_xsl);

// configure the transformer
$proc = new XSLTProcessor;
$proc->setParameter('', 'this_page', $this_page);
$proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules
echo $proc->transformToXML($xml);
}

[code]

However what I need to do is output a new XML file called sitemap.xml in the correct format.