r4507 - trunk/docs/user

[daigle at ecoinformatics.org]

Author: daigle
Date: 2008-11-04 15:59:43 -0800 (Tue, 04 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 4507

Modified:
   trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html
Log:
Add more detail to documentation

Modified: trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html
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--- trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html	2008-11-04 19:34:57 UTC (rev 4506)
+++ trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html	2008-11-04 23:59:43 UTC (rev 4507)
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@
   <a name="Intro"></a><div class="header1">About Sitemaps</div>
   <a name="Overview"></a><div class="header2">Overview</div>
   <p>Sitemaps are xml files that tell search engines which sites you would like to
-  be available in a web search.  The scope of this discussion encompasses Google
-  web searches only.</p>
+  be available in a web search.  This is especially useful in Metacat for making 
+  individual metadata entries available via web searches.  This does not happen now
+  because of lack of a web accessible browse heirarchy of metadata.</p>
      
   <p>The site map file contains metadata about the available sites on your server.  For 
   information on the sitemap protocol, please refer to 
@@ -52,6 +53,9 @@
   order for it to take effect.  We discuss that in the 
   <a href="#SubmitSitemap">Submit Your Sitemap</a> section.</p>
   
+  <p>The scope of this discussion encompasses Google
+  web searches only.</p>
+  
   <a name="Implementation"></a><div class="header2">Metacat Implementation</div>
   <p>Metacat automatically generates sitemap files for all public documents in 
   your catalog.  You can view the sitemap files at: