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title: "Sitemap Template"
date: "2014-05-07"
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parent: 'layout'
---
A single Sitemap template is used to generate the `sitemap.xml` file.
This page is of the type "node" and have all the [node
variables](/layout/variables/) available to use in this template
along with Sitemap-specific ones:
**.Sitemap.ChangeFreq** The page change frequency<br>
**.Sitemap.Priority** The priority of the page<br>
In addition to the standard node variables, the homepage has access to all
site pages through `.Data.Pages`.
▾ layouts/
sitemap.xml
## sitemap.xml
This template respects the version 0.9 of the [Sitemap
Protocol](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html).
{{% highlight xml %}}
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
{{ range .Data.Pages }}
<url>
<loc>{{ .Permalink }}</loc>
<lastmod>{{ safeHtml ( .Date.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" ) }}</lastmod>{{ with .Sitemap.ChangeFreq }}
<changefreq>{{ . }}</changefreq>{{ end }}{{ if ge .Sitemap.Priority 0.0 }}
<priority>{{ .Sitemap.Priority }}</priority>{{ end }}
</url>
{{ end }}
</urlset>
{{% /highlight %}}
*Important: Hugo will automatically add the following header line to this file
on render...please don't include this in the template as it's not valid HTML.*
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>