Site Maps and Site-Map Providers

Site maps contain a collection of items to be included as part of the website's navigation structure. The items are usually displayed in a hierarchical tree-like structure. In MCMS, this would usually be a list of channels and postings or sometimes galleries, resources, and templates. In its simplest form, a site map can be a plain XML file that stores a list of nodes, such as the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0">
<siteMapNode url="http://tropicalgreen/" title="Home"/>
<siteMapNode url="/PlantCatalog/" title="Plant Catalog">
<siteMapNode url="/Gardens/" title="Gardens">
<siteMapNode url="/Gardens/Members/" title="Members"/>
</siteMapNode>
. . . code continues . . .
</siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

After defining the site map, you could add a SiteMapDataSource to the page together with, say, a Menu control, bind the site...