Export Website into XML File
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Hi,
I am having an agency optimize the content on my sites. I need to create XML Schema before I export the content into XML.
What is best way to export content including meta tags for an entire site along with the steps on how to?
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I don't know if it does anything more than an offline copy. I haven't encountered your use case before, so haven't looked for that. You might look to see if that program or others has those types of options that could help you.
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will this software be able to export the site in xml or bascially just a offline copy?
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I've used http://www.httrack.com/ HTTrack Website Copier before. Website copy software is one keyword search to get you started to find tools like this.
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That would probably work, keri. What are the tools you speak of?
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There are tools that will crawl and scrape your entire site and make a local copy of it. Would that work as something you could hand off to the agency?
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i want a copy of the site content (on-page content and meta data) to give to an agency to optimize. its a regular site hosted on apache server
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Are you talking about a Wordpress Blog ? What are you trying to do by exporting site content/meta data into an XML File ? Are you trying to use it as a backup or what ?
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