== Sitemaps Roadmap ==

The News Sitemap reference:
http://docs.google.com/a/quintagroup.com/Doc?id=dgb4c3cf_24f766vrg6

Root
 * http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8476
 * http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

= Regular Sitemaps =

== Requirements to Sitemaps from http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php ==

 * The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
 * The Sitemap must: 
   1. Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag.
   1. Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the <urlset> tag. 
   1. Include a <url> entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag.
   1. Include a <loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag.
 * URLs in a Sitemap must be '''from a single host, domain'''
 * URLs can't refer to sibling directory (otside from url,containing sitemap location)

=== Current fixes for qPloneGoogleSitemap ===
 
 * Add "UTF-8" encoding
 * Up version for urlset namespace to "0.9"

=== Future ===

 * Add support of Sitemap index file 
 * Add support of optional tags : '''changefreq''', '''priority'''
 * Add policy support for calculate optional tags values
 * Add policy support for splitting sitemap into several sitemaps and bound them in sitemap index page



= News Sitemaps =

 === Differences from general sitemap ===

 * add '''news''' namespace
 * every URL must has <publication-date>
 * (publication date - current date) =< 3 days
 * number of URLs =< 1000

= Mobile Sitemaps =

 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8493

 === Differences from general sitemap ===

 * add '''mobile''' namespace
 * add <mobile:mobile/> tag for every mobile link
 * Indexed only xhtml-mp pages

=== TODO ===

 * Create sitemap content type(s) for every specyfic SM, with default fields - from setup tab of current qPGSMs
 * ???Additional action for SM content type for pingin and validation (this urls and other properties setting up in appropriate schematas of the content type) ???
 * Use current functionality for that content type from 
 * Create separate template for every Sitemap type

=== Thoughts ===

 * [wiki:qPloneGoogleSitemapsRoadmap/ThoughtsToDos Thoughts & To-Dos]