A command line utility to create an XML sitemap according to the sitemap protocol. It can be used as part of an automatic build process for a website/CMS and then submitted to search engines like Yahoo, Google, Ask, Microsoft.

• Windows 32-bit binary executable
  
• Cross-platform jar-file executable
  

sitemapper -s www.gencoreoperative.co.uk c:\mywebsite

This will produce an XML sitemap for all html files in the folder c:\mywebsite. The sitemap is stored in c:\mywebsite\sitemap.xml and looks as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
    <url>
        <loc>http://www.gencoreoperative.co.uk/about.html</loc>
        <lastmod>2008-07-29T19:48:50+01:00</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>http://www.gencoreoperative.co.uk/background-backup-agent.html</loc>
        <lastmod>2008-07-29T19:48:50+01:00</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>http://www.gencoreoperative.co.uk/binary-diff.html</loc>
        <lastmod>2008-07-29T19:48:50+01:00</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    </url>
    ...
</urlset>

I created this utility as a means of automating the process of generating a sitemap for my site. I searched extensively for something suitable but was unable to find one. There are some utilities that produce sitemaps, however none are free nor suitable for my usage. Fortunately with the xsd provided by sitemap.org and with a spot of JAXB; the code is quite simple to put together.