Hello all, I am journeying into ASP.net to create my own website. I am trying to start with a master page and some content pages. My question right now is that I am trying to implement some search engine friendly stuff to the website and am using the code found at the very bottom of this msdn article. I translated it into vb.net
Code:
Public Sub SetMetaContent()
        Dim pageDefault As String = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("defaultPage").ToString()
        Dim doc1 As XmlDocument

        If Cache("PageXml") Is Nothing Then
            doc1 = New XmlDocument()
            doc1.Load(Server.MapPath("App_Data\xmlSiteDesc.xml"))

            'xml document added to cache and set its cache dependency to file dependency// note: Keep Xml File in App_Data folder for Security reasons. 
            Cache.Insert("PageXml", doc1, New System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency(Server.MapPath("App_Data\xmlSiteDesc.xml")))
        Else
            doc1 = DirectCast(Cache("PageXml"), XmlDocument)
        End If

        Dim xpathNav As XPathNavigator = doc1.CreateNavigator()

        'Compile the XPath expression 
        Dim xpathExpr As XPathExpression = xpathNav.Compile("/Pages/Page[PageName='" & Request.Path.ToString().Replace("/", "").Trim().ToLower() & "']")
        Dim nodeIter As XPathNodeIterator = xpathNav.[Select](xpathExpr)

        ' if page information not found in xml file use default page title, keyword and description 
        If nodeIter.Count = 0 Then
            xpathExpr = xpathNav.Compile("/Pages/Page[PageName='" & pageDefault.Trim().ToLower() & "']")
            nodeIter = xpathNav.[Select](xpathExpr)
        End If

        While nodeIter.MoveNext()
            xpathNav = nodeIter.Current

            If xpathNav.MoveToFirstChild() Then
                Do
                    Select Case xpathNav.Name.ToUpper()

                        Case "TITLE"
                            metaTitle.Text = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(xpathNav.Value)

                        Case "DESCRIPTION"
                            metaDesc.Content = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(xpathNav.Value)

                        Case "KEYWORDS"
                            metaKeyword.Content = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(xpathNav.Value)

                    End Select
                Loop While (xpathNav.MoveToNext())
            End If
        End While
    End Sub
The Content XML Page I have created is in the App_Data directory and is called "xmSiteDesc.xml". Did I set this up right and replace the right areas? Due to IIS issues on this particular machine, I cannot exactly test it (I keep getting Error 505...).

Oh and the xml file looks like this:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<Pages>
  <Page>
    <!-- your page title -->
    <Title>Welcome to Shore Technical</Title>
    <!-- your .aspx file name for example -->
    <PageName>default.aspx</PageName>
    <!-- your page description  -->
    <description>Home Page for Shore Technical</description>
    <keywords>Software development visual basic vb.net custom programming programmer</keywords>
    <COPYRIGHT>Shore Technical</COPYRIGHT>
    <GENERATOR>Shore Techincal Generator</GENERATOR>
    <AUTHOR>Shore Technical</AUTHOR>
  </Page>
</Pages>
Any pointers, direction, etc is appreciated!


Thanks!

D