Trying to create an XML Sitemap in Umbraco 6. Getting the following error: ============================================================ This page contains the following errors: error on line 9 at column 10: Extra content at the end of the document Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

XML-Snippet

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = null;
    Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
}<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <url>
        <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>
</urlset>

Resolved with this

@using System.Text
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = null;

    Response.Clear();
    Response.ContentType        = "text/xml";
    Response.ContentEncoding    = Encoding.UTF8;

}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <url>
        <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>
</urlset>

Damn. You beat me to it. But as you probably found out, it was the XML "header" missing the question marks.

Anyways, for XML generation, XDocument and XElement might be good friends ;)

XDocument doc = new XDocument(
    new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"),
    new XElement(
        "urlset", 
        new XElement(
            "url",
            new XElement("loc", "http://www.example.com/"),
            new XElement("lastmod", "2005-01-01"),
            new XElement("changefreq", "monthly"),
            new XElement("priority", "0.8")
        )
    )
);

OK this is a more polished result now:

@using System.Text
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = null;

    //Set to XML
    Response.ContentType = "text/xml";

    //Homepage node
    var homepage = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().SingleOrDefault();

    //Base URL
    var baseUrl = homepage.UrlWithDomain();
    baseUrl     = baseUrl.EndsWith("/") ? baseUrl.TrimEnd("/") : baseUrl;

    //Get child pages of homepage
    var naviPages = homepage.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible());

}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    @ListChildNodes(naviPages, baseUrl)
</urlset>

@helper ListChildNodes(IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> naviItems, string baseUrl)
{
    //For each page in the collection...
    foreach (var item in naviItems)
    {
       <url>
            <loc>@baseUrl@item.Url</loc>
            <lastmod>@item.UpdateDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")</lastmod>
            <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
            <priority>0.8</priority>
        </url>

        @* If the current node in the loop has children *@
        if(item.Children.Any())
        {
            @* Re-run the helper with the children of the current node *@
            @ListChildNodes(item.Children, baseUrl)
        }
    }
}

nice, just a heads up:

 var homepage = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().SingleOrDefault();

will fail for multiple sites