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guilleva wrote:Hi All, thanks for your posts. I have been thinking about this and what would be the best way to solved and I don't think that forcing the XML sitemap to always include all the items on all the languages is the best solution. One of the reasons is that Joomla is always adding the lang=XX parameter to the urls, including the ones for the XML sitemap and adding links to other languages is confusing and all the people that already have two or more languages already configured for each language will be affected with the new versions.

So, I think that I will only provide a better documentation that makes it easier to create one sitemap for each language.

If adding lang=XX is causing errors for you, I would appreciate more details on your posts, unfortunately I don't have too much time to spend on Xmap right now and to be honest, when I see posts lacking of descriptive and helpful information I don't know where to start checking the problem.

This site is an example of a multilingual site using Joomla 2.5 and Xmap 2.2.1 and you can see the two different sitemaps at:

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http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/en/sitemap.xml
http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/es/sitemap.xml

Those URLs are possible because I added the following to my .htaccess:

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# English sitemap
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/en/sitemap.xml
RewriteRule .* /en/index.php?option=com_xmap&id=1&view=xml

# Spanish sitemap
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/es/sitemap.xml
RewriteRule .* /es/index.php?option=com_xmap&id=2&view=xml

As you can see, I'm using two different sitemaps, and specifying the the desired lang by param (lang=xx), but I think that it's not necessary to have two different sitemaps if your menus are not language specific.

On my case, the language of the page is defined by prefix /en/ or /es/ on the urls, but if that's not your case, you should use the lang=xx format.

Regards,

Guillermo