I was just about to update an old plugin I created to create an XML site map for products in WP e-Commerce…

…then I stumbled across the WP e-Commerce XML Sitemap plugin by Lee Willis.

The plugin worked well with WP e-Commerce 3.7.5 (the latest version) apart from a few minor issues. I got in touch with Lee and suggested a few tweaks/fixes – he has just released an updated version:

• Unpublished products are now not added to sitemap.
• Is now compatible with WordPress installations with custom table prefix.

You can download the latest version here…

Upgraded to OS X Snow Leopard, Yeah…
Mac SOAP Client for OS X not working, boo…

Mac SOAP Client for OS X is a great little app which can be used to access and query XML Web Services. I was very disappointed that after upgrading to Snow Leopard the XML result preview tab kept crashing the application.

Fortunately the application is now an open source project available on Google Code and it was only a short matter of time before someone came up with a fix – thank you Howard.

If you have a Flash site which loads dynamically generated XML file using SSL, you may have experienced this problem.

Loading XML files in Flash over an SSL Connection fails in Internet Explorer if the Pragma:no-cache or Cache-control:no-cache HTTP headers are set on the XML file. By default, all dynamically generated files are returned by the server with the Pragma:no-cache header so that they are not cached by the browser.

To ensure that Flash loads the XML successfully, you should use the following function in PHP near the top of your code:

session_cache_limiter('private_no_expire');