[.Net] SiteMap

[Rob Meade]

Hi all,

This is probably the most stupid of stupid questions being that I have been
unable to find very much out online so far about it...anyway...

I am creating a master page as a template for our teams applications. I
have added a sitemap control to it, having read that if the URL's were
copies or didn't exist it would error (MSDN site told me this) , I was
looking for a way to capture the error and be able to report in a more
friendly way to the members of my team what they need to do (in the same way
I have for other controls on the page that need to be configured via the
config file in the application). Turns out that if I leave the web.sitemap
file empty, or put any old rubbish in it, it stills seems to allow the
application to run, you just dont see the sitemap - fair enough, but what
I'd like to do is check the web.sitemap file in the first instance and see
if it has content. I've had a look through the methods for SiteMapPath and
SiteMapDataSour ce and I dont see anything which might suggest "IsValid" or
"HasContent " or "MightJustWorkI fYouWaveAStickA tIt"... etc etc...

Anyone know if there's anything already available to confirm that the file
is valid or has content? Failing that I could run it through my own xml
parsing stuff but just seems a little more of an overhead...

Thanks in advance for your help...

Regards

Rob

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