XML structure | Kartris User Guide

8.4.1. XML structure

The default web_menu.sitemap file code looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" enableLocalization="true" >
	<siteMapNode url="~/Default.aspx" title="$resources:Kartris,ContentText_Home"  description="$resources:Kartris,ContentText_Home"  >

		<siteMapNode url="~/Customer.aspx" title="$resources:Kartris,PageTitle_MyAccount"  description="$resources:Kartris,PageTitle_MyAccount" value="myaccount">
			<siteMapNode url="~/Wishlist.aspx" title="$resources:Kartris,PageTitle_WishListLogin"  description="$resources:Kartris,PageTitle_WishListLogin" value="wishlist" />
			<siteMapNode url="~/CustomerTickets.aspx?" title="$resources:Tickets,PageTitle_SupportTickets"  description="$resources:Tickets,PageTitle_SupportTickets" value="supporttickets" />
		</siteMapNode>
		
		<siteMapNode url="~/News.aspx" title="$resources:News,PageTitle_SiteNews"  description="$resources:News,PageTitle_SiteNews" value="news" />

		<siteMapNode url="~/Knowledgebase.aspx" title="$resources:Knowledgebase,PageTitle_Knowledgebase"  description="$resources:Knowledgebase,PageTitle_Knowledgebase" value="knowledgebase" />
		
		<siteMapNode url="~/Contact.aspx" title="$resources:Kartris,PageTitle_ContactUs"  description="$resources:Kartris,PageTitle_ContactUs" />

		</siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

Note carefully the structure; siteMapNodes with children such as ~/Customer.aspx are not self-closing - they have a separate close tag after the children. Child nodes like ~/Wishlist.aspx are self-closing (they have a / before the closing of the tag).

The $resources refer to language strings (see @15.2. Language strings‍). If your site only uses a single language, you can add links that have hardcoded text instead of references to language strings, for example:

<siteMapNode url="~/MyPage.aspx" title="MyPageTitle" description="Title of My Page" />