XML variables?

[WolfShade]

Hello, all,

Is there a way to dynamically set a date in XML?

Specifically for sitemap.xml, is there a way to use another file’s dateLastModified property to set a date for <lastmod> in a sitemap XML file? Just curious.

V/r,

[SamA74]

I should say so. I’m not sure the exact workflow you want, but you can create a script (Eg in PHP) that reads a list of URLs or crawls a site, finds the files, gets the lastmod date and writes your sitemap.xml file.
A while back I made a site crawler script that creates a sitemap, updating the lastmod times and adding new pages.

Need Help with making my own crawler in PHP

Oh, I had not seen these replies until I visited the thread just now. For some reason I’m not getting Email notifications for replies. But in the mean time I have been working on it further and have the crawler working on my site. I added a bit to get the ‘lastmod’ time for each URL, which is a little smarter than just using ‘filemtime()’, because that just gets the time for the main page file, not other sources of content on a page, such as database data and content includes, which may be upd…

[WolfShade]

So I can’t really make a sitemap.xml file that uses some kind of XML variable; but instead will have to create sitemap.xml from scratch, every time something changes?

V/r,

[SamA74]

@WolfShade

So I can’t really make a sitemap.xml file that uses some kind of XML variable;

I wouldn’t say you can’t, I’m not sure, that’s just the way I’ve done it. Since the process is automated, it is no great effort on my part to re-create the whole sitemap.
It may be different in your case.