如何创建包含导航菜单链接的站点地图？

Question

I have a website in which there is a navigation menu in each HTML page. In order to implement this, there is a JavaScript function that is called and writes the navigation panel with all the links

<!------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      HEADER Navigation bar  
------------------------------------------------------------------------>
<script>
   insertHeader();
</script>

Thus, if there is a change, it is done only in the JavaScript file and is automatically applied to dozens of pages across the website.

Problem : I am trying to generate a sitemap with this tool . However, since my navigation panel is not written in the HTML (but inserted by JS), this tool does not recognize the navigation. As a result 99.9% of my website is not recognized. Other tools I saw also behave similar behavior.

1) How can I overcome this problem?

2) Will google crawlers see the other links I have in navigation panel?

Answer 1

This question is very old, but I ran into the same problem as you. I also create my nav using JavaScript. To be able to generate my sitemap, what I did was copy the JavaScript generated nav into my index.html temporarily. Then after successfully running the sitemap generator, the copied nav can be removed from index.html.