SitemapCFC

SitemapCFC is a CFC to model and generate sitemaps.org protocol sitemap.xml documents from flexible data collection types. You can initialize a SitemapCFC object with a collection of URLs in the form of a list, a query or an array of structs. When using a query or array, the column/key names do not matter, as you can specify a simple key mapping as an optional init argument.

Features Overview

• Use a list, query or array (of structs) to initialize a sitemap object.
• Query column or struct key names used to initialize a Sitemap.cfc object are not important; an optional init() argument can be used to map to standard sitemaps.org protocol tag names.
• Write your sitemap.xml file to disk or dynamically send a sitemap XML document to the browser as binary page output (cfcontent type text/xml).
• Debugging methods available to access a Sitemap.cfc object's URL collection in the form of an array, an XML object or the raw XML string.
• XML document is schema validation ready.
• All initialization data values are cleaned (entity escaping, date/time format, valid string values, etc.) and validated.
• Date(/time) values for the <lastmod> tags can be passed in as any valid date/time string or object; they will be automatically converted to UTC in proper W3C Datetime format (again, per sitemaps.org protocol).

Requirements

This has been fully tested on ColdFusion 8.01 only, but should work fine with ColdFusion MX 6+, Railo 3.0+ (maybe earlier?) and possibly others. I will try to better confirm compatibility and welcome feedback if you have tested other platforms.

Resources

• Blog post with useful code usage examples
• Author SitemapCFC blog category
• Sitemaps overview and protocol
• Using Sitemaps with Google