URLs in a sitemap…..

Hi

The site in question uses a URL rewriting thingy (I didn’t write it so I don’t know a huge amount about it).

Basically, the news article pages are served like this:

[url]www.mywebsite.com/article.aspx?id=99999[/url]

However, you can also browse the same article by using this URL:

[url]www.mywebsite.com/This-is-my-headline.99999.xyz[/url]

where xyz is a unique file extension registered in IIS so that it can be handled differently (effectively it knows to use the article.aspx page and supplies the article id, the actual headline text is ignored by the URL rewriter).

Whichever of those URLs you use, the browser will show the latter form of it. If you use the former version, then the code behind will form the URL by grabbing the article headline out of the DB and formatting it correctly.

OK, so the question is how to write the sitemap correctly for this.

Should I use:

[code=php]
<url>www.mywebsite.com/article.aspx?id=11111</url>
…
<url>www.mywebsite.com/article.aspx?id=22222</url>
…
<url>www.mywebsite.com/article.aspx?id=33333</url>
[/code]

or

[code=php]
<url>www.mywebsite.com/This-is-my-headline.11111.xyz</url>
…
<url>www.mywebsite.com/This-is-my-next-headline.22222.xyz</url>
…
<url>www.mywebsite.com/This-is-my-final-headline.33333.xyz</url>
[/code]

Or, does it not matter?

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