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4.3 Deliver sitemap of local pages

In addition to sitemap creation from webpage on a web site, you can also create a sitemap from web pages in your local file system before they are uploaded  to the web site. This flexibility can help a  developer better understand the structure of the web site by studying the relationships among links.

If you have generated a site map based on  HTML files on your computer, the site map will probably not work when you upload it together with the HTML  files to your web server, since the links are no longer valid. There are two ways you can get around this problem.

The easy way
Generate the sitemap again after the HTML files have been uploaded to the server.

The hard way

First, locate the source file for the links displayed in a sitemap. In the case of a plain HTML sitemap, it is the  sitemap HTML file itself. In the case of a Java Applet sitemap, it is the file named "mapsource.html" in the classes directory under the saved site map template directory.

Second, use a text editor to globally replace all local links to internet links in the link source  file.

Next, upload the sitemap file(s) to the web site and use them in your web page(s) by following the steps in either Deliver HTML sitemap or Deliver Applet sitemap.