Automatic sitemap.xml

I am trying to figure out if it would be better to automate my sitemap or to manually update it monthly.

I am not very good with how sitemaps work in the first place so trying to learn about them now is something that I am really interested in doing. Would automating the sitemap make a large difference in the indexing process? Does the sitemap have anything to do with the indexing process in the first place?

Also could I go about using a system similar to this in my sitemap and have it extremely limited in the sitemap but would still crawl all of the links on that page?

<url>
<loc>http://www.somedomain.com/category/</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.80</priority>
</url>

Or would I need to make it so that the entire sitemap has each post like this

<url>
<loc>http://www.soundpiff.com/category/example-content.html</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.80</priority>
</url>

Best How To :

Whether you create it manually or automatically, the result should be the same, and consumers would not now about how it got created in the first place (they can’t see behind the curtain).

But in case of manually, if you only intend to update it monthly, you might loose 1 month until new pages get indexed, in the worst case (!). Worst case, because many consumers might use other ways in addition for finding new pages.

The Sitemaps protocol doesn’t define a mechanism for specifying URL templates, so no, you should list absolute URLs of the pages you want consumers to know about. See also their FAQ Do URLs in the Sitemap need to be completely specified?: "Yes."

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xml,vb.net,linq-to-xml

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xml,xslt

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python,xml,view,odoo,add-on

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c#,xml,winforms,list

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xml,xslt

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xml,xslt,xslt-1.0,libxslt

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android,xml

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xml,xslt-2.0

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java,xml,xpath

Well //@* gives you all attribute nodes, add a predicate //@*[. = 'zzz'] and you have all attribute nodes with the value zzz.

removing a parent node dependig upon child node using xslt

xml,xslt

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xml,xslt,xpath,xslt-2.0

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Convert contents of an XmlNodeList to a new XmlDocument without looping

c#,xml,xpath,xmldocument,xmlnodelist

If you're happy to convert it into LINQ to XML, it's really simple: XDocument original = ...; // However you load the original document // Separated out for clarity - could be inlined, of course string xpath = "//Person[not(PersonID = following::Person/PersonID)]" XDocument people = new XDocument( new XElement("Persons", original.XPathSelectElements(xpath) )...

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c#,xml

Is "User Info" and "Course Data" is a different entity. If it is so, I think you may encapsulate them in one entity. XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(path, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8); writer.WriteStartDocument(true); writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; writer.Indentation = 4; writer.WriteStartElement("My Entity"); /* It is a biggest one*/ writer.WriteStartElement("User Info"); writer.WriteStartElement("Name"); writer.WriteString(userName); writer.WriteEndElement(); writer.WriteStartElement("Tutor...

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java,xml,spring-mvc

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XML Post from form using curl PHP

php,xml,curl

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android,xml,android-fragments

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xml,xslt,namespaces

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c#,.net,xml,xml-parsing,xelement

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Load XML to list using LINQ [duplicate]

c#,xml,linq

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c#,xml,linq,xpath,linq-to-xml

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java,xml,parsing,xsd

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python,xml,python-2.7,pandas,lxml

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xml,r,connection

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php,xml,magento

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php,xml,symfony2,deserialization,jmsserializerbundle

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java,android,xml,android-activity,android-listfragment

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java,xml,dom,xpath

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android,xml,character-encoding,xmlpullparser,questionmark

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xml,xslt,xslt-2.0

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xml,xslt

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php,xml,htmlpurifier

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c++,xml,qt

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java,arrays,xml,permutation

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html,xml,converter,xquery,basex

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html,xml,html5

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java,xml,xpath,xml-parsing

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ruby,xml

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xml,xslt

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c#,xml,wpf,visual-studio,relative-path

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sql,xml,oracle

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c#,xml,csv,optimization,type-conversion

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javascript,jquery,xml,jquery-mobile

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xml,xsd

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c#,xml,linq-to-xml

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c#,xml,foreach

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xml,schema

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javascript,jquery,html,seo,cross-platform

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xml,xslt,xpath

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xml,xslt,xpath

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xml,xpath

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