Apparatus and method for generating web site navigations

A computer readable storage device having machine readable program codes for causing a computer system to:

• receive designation of a specific web page contained in a web site having a tree structure of web pages, every node in the tree structure representing an individual web page of the web site;
• set the specific web page as a navigation root for a partial tree of the web site;
• automatically generate a navigation comprising at least one link to a web page of the web site as the partial tree of the web site in which the specific web page is designated as the navigation root of the partial tree of the web site,
• the navigation comprising a displayed partial site map comprising the partial tree of the web site;
• and
• set the navigation root to indicate a distinction for purposes of a style of display of the at least one link to the web page of the navigation between the partial tree having the specific web page as the navigation root and at least one other portion of the web site,
• the style of display of the at least one link being based on a position in the partial tree;
• wherein the tree structure is represented by extensible markup language (XML) and information of the navigation root is inserted by an XML tag.

A method for generating a web site navigation, the method comprising:

• receiving designation of a specific web page contained in a web site having a tree structure of web pages, every node in the tree structure representing an individual web page of the web site;
• setting the specific web page as a navigation root for a partial tree of the web site;
• automatically generating the navigation comprising an extensible markup language (XML) file designating at least one link to a web page of the web site as the partial tree of the web site in which the specific web page is designated as the navigation root of the partial tree of the web site, the navigation comprising a partial site map comprising the partial tree of the web site represented in XML;
• displaying the navigation using the automatically generated XML file;
• and
• setting the navigation root to indicate a distinction for purposes of a style of display of the at least one link to the web page of the navigation between the partial tree and at least one other portion of the web site,
• the style of display of the at least one link being based on a position in the partial tree
• wherein the tree structure is represented by XML and information of the navigation root is inserted by an XML tag.