I want to use the web.sitemap file to store the structure of my site... but I can only seem to create one <siteMapNode url="Default.aspx" title="Home"  description=""> and it appears that it must contain some child nodes.

Is there any way to use the web.sitemap file if your site has no heirarchial structure (yet)? I just want to use it to create a menu for my site.

Thanks

Currently, you can only have one top level item.  However, you have two options.  First: you can set ShowStartingNode="False" on your SiteMapDataSource and it will ignore the top level node.  Second: If you set the url and title blank on the root node, it won't really render the node although there can be some mild style side effects of doing this. 
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Danny

dannychen wrote:

Currently, you can only have one top level item.  However, you have two options.  First: you can set ShowStartingNode="False" on your SiteMapDataSource and it will ignore the top level node.  Second: If you set the url and title blank on the root node, it won't really render the node although there can be some mild style side effects of doing this.  -- Danny

Ooh, I didn't know about the ShowStartingNode property. Thanks, I'm at work atm, I'll check it out when I get home.

Thank you for the quick response.