Generate GSitemap View

Introduction

During my work on an ASP.NET MVC website I realized ASP.NET MVC views are more than just a page views and can be used to produce any kind of output.  
In the previous part of this series I gave an example how RSS output can be produces using a ASP.NET MVC controller and view.
This time I will show how simple is to generate  an output in Google sitemap (GSitemap) format and provide a dynamic sitemaps for Google crawler.

Code

Having an ASP.NET MVC web site I came to a task to generate some dynamic Google sitemap for helping the Google crawler to discover easily the dynamic content.

Here the code of my GSitemap generating:

1. Part of my Controller class where I provide the data.

   /// <summary>

   /// Gets the products Google sitemap.

   /// </summary>

   /// <returns></returns>

   public virtual ActionResult GSitemap() {

       return View(Product.GetAll());

   }

2. The view markup. Take a note there is no space between the page definition (<%@ Page ... %>) and the XML markup.

   <%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<IEnumerable<Artem.WebSite.Models.Product>>" %><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

   <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">

       <% foreach (var product in Model) { %>

       <url>

           <loc>http://artembg.com<%= product.DetailsUrl %></loc>

       </url>

       <% } %>

   </urlset>

Points of Interest

Once realizing the freedom We, ASP.NET developers, got with ASP.NET MVC Views, there is no limit of the views usage.

Happy coding ...