Hello every one. I am building a website and encountered a problem with a sitemap. I wanted to enable sitemapTrimming to my site how ever this feature is not working properly unless all the child nodes are in one group. I wanted to use the format below every time I fire up the site the whole navigation links disappear. I need help to resolve this problem please help me. I checked this sites for help. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/20/431019.aspx ; http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/14/438241.aspx ; http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/111605-1.aspx I did not get what I wanted. Please help I have attached the site map and the web.config file for reference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <siteMap defaultProvider='XmlSiteMapProvider' enabled='true'> <providers> <add name='XmlSiteMapProvider' description='Default SiteMap provider.' type='System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider ' siteMapFile='Web.sitemap' securityTrimmingEnabled='true' /> </providers> </siteMap> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <siteMap xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0' > <siteMapNode > <siteMapNode url='' roles='*' title='All'> <siteMapNode url='~/Default.aspx' roles='*' title='Home'/> <siteMapNode url='~/Pages/Default.aspx' roles='*' title='2nd Page' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Pages/Login.aspx' roles='*' title='Login' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Pages/Forum.aspx' roles='*' title='Forum' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Pages/Contact Us.aspx' roles='*' title='Contact' /> </siteMapNode> <siteMapNode url='' title='Accounts'> <siteMapNode url='~/Accounts/Default.aspx' title='Accounts' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Accounts/User1/Default.aspx' title='User1' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Accounts/User2/Default.aspx' title='User2' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Accounts/User3/Default.aspx' title='User3' /> </siteMapNode> <siteMapNode url='' title='Secure'> <siteMapNode url='~/Secure/Default.aspx' title='Upload' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Secure/Downloads.aspx' title='Downloade' /> <siteMapNode url='~/Secure/Reference.aspx' title='Reference' /> </siteMapNode> </siteMapNode> </siteMap>
The ASP.NET sitemap's use XML standards, they have to be "Well Formed". You have an empty node in that one you posted. This is an example of a valid SiteMap:
