Hi Tavi,

Thank you for the follow-up and description of your use case, I appreciate it!

I understand the benefit of an automated tooling for sitemap generation. Alas, I have to confirm this is currently outside the scope of UI for Blazor as a UI library. Other products of ours such as UI for ASP.NET AJAX are more tightly coupled with their data binding and have dedicated DataSource components. UI for Blazor deviates from this concept and it also won't be able to generate a physical file (XML) from other physical files (.razor) or database records for app views.

Still, I hope you will be able to achieve the desired result.

Best,
Dimo
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Hi Tavi,

Let me understand your request better. I assume you need two major features of a SiteMap component:

1. Retrieve and parse a sitemap file. Then, bind to the parsed result.
2. Render navigation links in a variety of layouts.
   

Generally, UI for Blazor is decoupled from the process of requesting and parsing data. From this point of view, the first point is outside the scope of the product.

On the other hand, if your focus is visualization and you are willing to parse the sitemap.xml file, then we provide UI components that can render the links, such as the TreeView and ListView. In both cases, use a template to render the page links as <a href="..."> tags.

Regards,
Dimo
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