Sitemap Style

What is this?

Every website that wants to be found should have a sitemap.xml file that Google (and everyone else) can use to help find and index all the pages.

By default, these files look horrible when a human looks at them in a browser. But there is a simple way to make them look better: Sitemap Style!

How do I use it?

Download one of the available styles and save it as sitemap.xslt in the same directory as your sitemap.xml file
Note that the extension is .xslt and NOT .xml!

Add it to your sitemap.xmlfile. At the top of the file, it will look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset ...>
...

Add a line in the middle so it looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="my-downloaded-file.xslt"?>
<urlset ...>
...

Troubleshooting

Available styles

plain.xslt - just a plain bullet list of pages with classless CSS.
linked.xslt - same as plain, but with a link to the Sitemap Viewer. Demo
redirect.xslt - a JavaScript redirect to the Sitemap Viewer with fallback to plain.

Source | Sitemap Viewer | Sitemap Viewer Parameters

Sitemap Style

What is this?

How do I use it?

Available styles

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