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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 ====
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=== sitemap.xml example with changefreq specified ===
==== sitemap.xml example with changefreq specified ====
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=== sitemap.xml example with changefreq and priority specified ===
==== sitemap.xml example with changefreq and priority specified ====
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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>