Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SITEMAP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SITEMAP to another file type
To convert SITEMAP site maps to another format, you need Microsoft Visual Studio or other Web software.
Convert a file to SITEMAP
To convert other file formats to the "ASP.NET Site Map" file type, you need software like Microsoft Visual Studio or a similar tool.
About SITEMAP files
The .sitemap file is an XML-based navigation configuration file developed by Microsoft for the ASP.NET web framework. It defines the hierarchical structure of a website, allowing developers to dynamically generate menus, tree views, and breadcrumb trails. While highly functional within the Microsoft ecosystem, the format comes with significant disadvantages. It is strictly tied to ASP.NET and cannot be natively parsed by modern frontend frameworks like React or Vue without backend transformation. Furthermore, it is not a visual format; web browsers will only display raw, unformatted code unless processed by a server. Developers migrating legacy websites or SEO specialists running audits often find these files cumbersome to read. You will likely need to convert .sitemap files to standard XML, JSON, or CSV formats to extract the URL structures for modern applications or spreadsheet analysis. Standard online converters fail to process these files because they do not recognize the specific ASP.NET schema. Since the underlying structure is essentially plain text, our tool can easily inspect the file and help you extract the embedded navigation links.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SITEMAP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SITEMAP file to JSON, CSV, XML, HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP or JSPX, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio or similar software from the "Website Navigation Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO, HTM or RB files to SITEMAP, try Microsoft Visual Studio or another comparable tool in the "Website Navigation Configuration" category.
The SITEMAP Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SITEMAP converter.