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I'm stunned that most of you seem to believe that Google ignores XML pages and you have to transform the XML server-side to feed the search engine. For evidence of the contrary try the search: staudinger site:free.pages.at filetype:xml Manfred >From: Jesper Tverskov <jesper@xxxxxxxxxxx> >1) Google is based on the source code, and will ignore your webpages. > >From: Didier PH Martin <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >You said: >1) Google is based on the source code, and will ignore your webpages. >I reply: >Are you sure of that? How do you know? Is this confirmed by somebody else? >Don't get me wrong, I am just trying to find the truth, not attacking you. > >From: Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Put this into Google: codehelp XML language syntax >The page you will get back has only a link to the HTML page. There is an XML >page, using browser-side XSLT to convert to XHTML but Google doesn't know >about that. If the HTML page had not been created for non-XML capable >browsers, Google would not know anything about it. For some time, I had some >example pages that only existed in XML. Those pages simply did not exist in >Google. > >From: Nathan Young -X (natyoung - Artizen at Cisco) <natyoung@xxxxxxxxx> >Google doesn't authoritatively address how it treats pages that behave >this way, I suspect because it can be a very complicated issue. I have >heard rumors that the google crawler is starting to execute some types >of javascript as it indexes and so certain kinds of generated content >may get indexed now when they previously had not. > >M. David Peterson <xmlhacker@xxxxxxxxx> to xsl-list >The rule of thumb? When possible (and in most cases it is) render the >HTML on the client. When not (as is the case for search engines -- >yes, this is true -- Google, MSN, Yahoo!, etc... do not rendering your >XML data using the provided XSLT file. This means you need to do this >for them. When a reputable search engine makes a request, you simply >need to send them the prerendered HTML file. > >Didier PH Martin <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> to xsl-list >Hello Neil, >Good point and thank you for sharing your experiment with google.
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