SiteMap Manipulations

public bool publishPage(int _cmsID, string _parent, string _title, string _publicUrl)
    {
        string path = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/web.sitemap");

        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

        doc.Load(path);
        XmlNode newSiteMapNode = createSiteMapNode(doc, _title, _publicUrl);
        
//I had an issue here finding siteMapNodes under the root siteMap because of the xml namespace .net uses.  You can either remove it or try something like: /siteMap[@xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0"/siteMapNode/siteMapNode[@title='" + _parent + "']  

//I haven't actually tried that yet but it's worth a shot now that I look at the code again.

        XmlNode parentNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("/siteMap/siteMapNode/siteMapNode[@title='" + _parent + "']");
        
        //this if is supposed to prevent posting the same node twice but it doesn't work properly.
        if(!parentNode.InnerXml.Contains(newSiteMapNode.ToString()))
            {
            parentNode.AppendChild(newSiteMapNode);
            doc.Save(path);
        
            using (objPagesDC)
            {
                var objUpdPublished = objPagesDC.pages.Single(x => x.cms_id == _cmsID);
                objUpdPublished.published = 1;
                objPagesDC.SubmitChanges();

            }

            return true;
        }
        return false;

    }

    protected XmlNode createSiteMapNode(XmlDocument doc, string _title, string _publicUrl)
    {
        // create new siteMapNode
        XmlNode siteMapNode = doc.CreateElement("siteMapNode");
        XmlAttribute attrUrl = doc.CreateAttribute("url");
        attrUrl.Value = "~/page_sb.aspx?page=" + _publicUrl;
        XmlAttribute attrTitle = doc.CreateAttribute("title");
        attrTitle.Value = _title;
        XmlAttribute attrDesc = doc.CreateAttribute("description");
        attrDesc.Value = _title;
        //append attributes to siteMapNode
        siteMapNode.Attributes.Append(attrUrl);
        siteMapNode.Attributes.Append(attrTitle);
        siteMapNode.Attributes.Append(attrDesc);          

        return siteMapNode;
    }

    public bool unPublishPage(int _cmsID, string _parent, string _title)
    {
        string path = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("../../web.sitemap");

        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

        doc.Load(path);
        XmlNode deleteNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("/siteMap/siteMapNode/siteMapNode[@title='" + _parent + "']/siteMapNode[@title='" + _title + "']");
        deleteNode.RemoveAll();
        doc.Save(path);
    }

    
}