Google sitemaps

Hi

I just came across this:

  https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html

It's an XML format for listing pages on a site, it should be fairly
easy to generate this with petal, it's a simple format, eg:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
   <url>
      <loc>http://www.yoursite.com/</loc>
      <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
   </url>
   <url>
      <loc>http://www.yoursite.com/foo/</loc>
      <lastmod>2004-12-23</lastmod>
   </url>
  </urlset>

  https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html

We might as well do this as /.sitemap.xml and perhaps a plain text
version would make sense:

  https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/faq.html#s9

What is a bit odd is that you have to sumbit the sitemap to google,
they don't seem to intend to find them themselves:

  https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/faq.html#s4

Chris

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