Question

Is there a quick way to get a XML sitemap into a hierarchical data object?

Or maybe I’m going about this wrong from the get go. I would like to combine two XML files.

The first on is a sitemap:

<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
   <siteMapNode description="Pages" title="Pages">
     <siteMapNode target="_blank" url="~/1.aspx" title="1" description="1"/>
   </siteMapNode>
   <siteMapNode  target="_blank" url="~/2.aspx" title="2" description="2" >
     <siteMapNode target="_blank" url="~/3.aspx" title="3" description="3"/>
     <siteMapNode target="_blank" url="~/4.aspx" title="4" description="4"/>
   </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

The second is is more of just a data store that is used to build a menu:

<root>
   <item ID="BB" InnerHtml="Group1"/>
   <item ID="BB1" ParentID="BB" InnerHtml="1" Url="~/1.aspx" UrlTarget="_Blank"/>
   <item ID="BB2" ParentID="BB" InnerHtml="2" Url="~/2.aspx" UrlTarget="_Blank"/>
   <item ID="BB3" ParentID="BB" InnerHtml="3" Url="~/3.aspx" UrlTarget="_Blank"/>
   <item ID="BD" InnerHtml="Group2"/>
   <item ID="BD1" ParentID="BD" InnerHtml="4" Url="~/4.aspx" UrlTarget="_Blank"/>
   <item ID="BD2" ParentID="BD" InnerHtml="5" Url="~/5.aspx" UrlTarget="_Blank"/>
   <item ID="BD3" ParentID="BD" InnerHtml="6" Url="~/6.aspx" UrlTarget="_Blank"/>
</root>

I would like to only have one file to maintain.

Answer 1

Conceivably, you could create a hybrid file with all the data in it and use XSLT to create ‘views’ of the data during your build process or runtime where applicable.