Sitemap.xml change to anchor links (converter)

[Dreamgame2016]

Hi all,

I would like import the sitemap.xml to an anchorlinks list. List with links navigatetion html ^^. Is there a posibility to use a tool or in excel? Because I will use 5000 products and 1000 brands.

[CleverPhD]

I think I understand what you are trying to do, but I may be off with the semantics. The xml sitemap (at it's most basic level) is just a centralized list of links for pages that are on your site to help the search engines find pages without having to crawl all of the pages on your site. They do not contain any anchor text in them.

If you are wanting to crawl your site and find out what all your anchor text is internally, I would use a tool like Screaming Frog.

If you are trying to extract information from your sitemap.xml then you would need to use a combination of a text editor and excel.  Say your URL structure includes product and brand information and you have all the URLs in a sitemap.  You can pull that document into a text editor and then use the "Find and replace" function to get rid of all the extraneous code and then you can be left with just the URLs on one line.  You can then use the excel function "Text to columns" to then split out the URL into sections based on slashes or dashes.  If you have Screaming Frog, it will extract all the URLs for you and then you can split out the info in excel as well.  Use Google to find examples of how to run the tools mentioned above in detail.

If I am totally off, please give a more detailed explanation of what you are trying to do and that will help as well.