Creating Custom Site Map Attributes

You can extend a Site Map with your own custom attributes. You can use a custom attribute to represent any type of information that you want.

For example, imagine that you want to associate <meta> Description tags with each page in your web application to make it easier for search engines to index your website. In that case, you can add a metaDescription attribute to the nodes in a Web.sitemap file.

The Web.sitemap file in Listing 23.14 includes metaDescription attributes for the two Services pages.

Listing 23.14. Web.sitemap

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Any custom attributes that you add to a Site Map are exposed by instances of the ...

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