Human readable stylesheets

[mesge]

I noticed there's no option to configure a stylesheet for generated sitemaps. Having a human-readable sitemap can often be useful for debugging (imagine you're not a developer and reading raw XML or ruby code is daunting). Is there any intention to add a feature like this to the roadmap? More than happy to help out with a PR if maintainers are interested.

[kjvarga]

There is an option to generate an uncompressed sitemap, is that not what you're looking for?

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[mesge]

Not exactly. For example, in the Wordpress ecosystem a plugin made by Yoast generates styled xml sitemaps with linkable locations. Here's what it looks like.

A styled sitemap is a little easier to digest than the document tree shown by most browsers when the stylesheet isn't present. Can be handy to confirm that everything is in order.

I'm just proposing an optional config option that can point to a stylesheet.

[kjvarga]

Would the user would have to host their own stylesheet? Or is there a public one we can use?

[kjvarga]

This isn't a priority for most people. I'd consider including a stylesheet if it was hosted remotely and was reliable.

[jess]

I came across this need today @kjvarga. I monkey patched for now, but I could submit a pr to make this optional if you want.

Something like:

SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.stylesheet_path = '/stylesheets/xml-stylesheet.xsl'

That would add the reference to the sitemap:

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/stylesheets/xml-stylesheet.xsl"?>

We could include a simple example of a xsl file to help people get started.