Google Sitemaps Stylesheets
Normally Google Sitemaps are pure maschine-readable xml text - but not very human friendly. When using Google sitemaps stylesheets this is now also human-friendly. Participating in this is very easy, there is just one line that has to be added at each Google sitemaps file and a file that has to be stored somewhere on your website. That's it.
This page describes what you have to do to use it and what you can you once it's installed.
Installation of Google Sitemaps Stylesheet
To view the Google Sitemaps files human-friendly (and not only computer-friendly) you just have to download the xslt (a file that describes how the browser should display the content of the Google sitemaps files) and copy it somewhere on your website.
Than you have to add one line into the sitemaps file
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="gss.xsl"?><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>In this case the gss.xsl file has been copied into the same directory where the Google sitemaps files are stored. If this is not the case you have to modify the value after href=" - you could easily add the absolute url of the gss.xsl file on your website. But for security reasons many browsers have the restriction that these have to be stored under the same domain as the Google sitemaps files are stored.
Usage of Google Sitemaps Stylesheet
Google Sitemaps Index files
If you're looking into a sitemaps index file you'll see the sitemaps files and the last modification date of each file - you can sort the list and when clicking on a sitemaps file this file is opened in the browser.
Google Sitemaps files
You can sort the entries of the sitemaps file depending on filename, last modification date, priority or change frequency. You can have a look at the sitemaps index file used by enarion.net here. The initial version has been developed by Baccou Bonneville, updates have been by Johannes Müller and Tobias Kluge. This code is now available on sourceforge for downloading.
Download Google Sitemaps stylesheet
The latest version 1.5a (last update 2005-09-01; not yet available at sourceforge) can be downloaded at enarion.net. The difference to the current version 1.4 is that all content has been included into the xslt file, which makes it much easier to handle. It's licensed under LGPL.
Discuss about Google Sitemaps stylesheet
If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to discuss this at the enarion.net forum section Google Sitemaps Stylesheet.
The documentation on this page is released under Free Documentation License (FDL).
