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'''Note''' : Here we are attempting to derive a simple mechanism, lowest common denominator and driven by a top level HTML nav mechanism. We are not considering crawlers etc just yet. It is possible that later when/if we look at crawlers we may need to encode some kind of order information (for now this is explicitly defined in the order the author defined the link elements). | '''Note''' : Here we are attempting to derive a simple mechanism, lowest common denominator and driven by a top level HTML nav mechanism. We are not considering crawlers etc just yet. It is possible that later when/if we look at crawlers we may need to encode some kind of order information (for now this is explicitly defined in the order the author defined the link elements). | ||
== Content and class values == | == Brainstorming solution 1 == | ||
=== Content and class values === | |||
* mapmf (shorthand for map microformat), required | * mapmf (shorthand for map microformat), required | ||
** mapmf can be used to declare a link element as something the author wants considered when site mapping occurs | ** mapmf can be used to declare a link element as something the author wants considered when site mapping occurs | ||
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'''Note''' : We ignore 'lastmod' for now (again only pertinent to sitemap.xml) | '''Note''' : We ignore 'lastmod' for now (again only pertinent to sitemap.xml) | ||
== Examples == | === Examples === | ||
=== Simple HTML sitemap or cache manifest example === | ==== Simple HTML sitemap or cache manifest example ==== | ||
<pre><nowiki> | <pre><nowiki> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
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</nowiki></pre> | </nowiki></pre> | ||
=== sitemap.xml example with changefreq specified === | ==== sitemap.xml example with changefreq specified ==== | ||
<pre><nowiki> | <pre><nowiki> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
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</nowiki></pre> | </nowiki></pre> | ||
=== sitemap.xml example with changefreq and priority specified === | ==== sitemap.xml example with changefreq and priority specified ==== | ||
<pre><nowiki> | <pre><nowiki> | ||
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Revision as of 19:04, 23 April 2012
<entry-title>Sitemap Brainstorming</entry-title>
Per the microformats process this page documents attempts to brainstorm a sitemap and related mechanisms microformat.
Note : We define 'site mapping' as the process of generating a particular sitemap flavour, like sitemap.xml or an HTML sitemap, or something related like an HTML5 cache manifest.
Note : Here we are attempting to derive a simple mechanism, lowest common denominator and driven by a top level HTML nav mechanism. We are not considering crawlers etc just yet. It is possible that later when/if we look at crawlers we may need to encode some kind of order information (for now this is explicitly defined in the order the author defined the link elements).
Brainstorming solution 1
Content and class values
- mapmf (shorthand for map microformat), required
- mapmf can be used to declare a link element as something the author wants considered when site mapping occurs
- mapmf would be required to generate all the different sitemap and related mechanisms, HTML sitemap, sitemap.xml and cache manifest
- priority, optional
- priority is only pertinent to sitemap.xml
- a first iteration for defining possible values could be (p0|p1|p2|p3|p4|p5|p6|p7|p8|p9|one)
- p0 = 0.0, p1 = 0.1, one = 1.0
- if the author fails to specify a priority it is sane to assume a machine may generate the default of 0.5 as per the sitemaps.org protocol
- changefreq, optional
- changefreq is only pertinent to sitemap.xml
- we can lift the possible values directly out of the sitemaps.org protocol (always|hourly|daily|weekly|monthly|yearly|never)
Note : We ignore 'lastmod' for now (again only pertinent to sitemap.xml)
Examples
Simple HTML sitemap or cache manifest example
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.site.tld/" class="mapmf">Home</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.site.tld/section1/" class="mapmf">Section 1</a>
</li>
</ul>
sitemap.xml example with changefreq specified
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.site.tld/" class="mapmf daily">Home</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.site.tld/section1/" class="mapmf weekly">Section 1</a>
</li>
</ul>
sitemap.xml example with changefreq and priority specified
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.site.tld/" class="mapmf daily one">Home</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.site.tld/section1/" class="mapmf weekly p8">Section 1</a>
</li>
</ul>