Soumyendra and SharePoint: Static Navigation Menu on a Site Collection

Here, I am trying to change the built-in top navigation menu with a custom made menu. These menu items are static in nature and controlled from a XML file.

These are the steps need to be followed:

1) Create a XML file and save the file as .sitemap

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ? >
< siteMap >
  < siteMapNode title="Company" url="" >
   < siteMapNode title="Profile" >
   < siteMapNode title="About Us" url="/Default.aspx" >
   < siteMapNode title="History" url="/division1/division1a/Default.aspx" >
   < siteMapNode title="Management" url="/division1/division2a/Default.aspx"/ >
   < /siteMapNode >
   < siteMapNode title="News" url="/divi/division3a/Default.aspx" >
   < siteMapNode title="Media" url="/dion1/division3a/Default.aspx"/ >
   < /siteMapNode >
   < /siteMapNode >
   < /siteMapNode >
   < siteMapNode title="Interests" >
   < siteMapNode title="Careers" url="/division1/Home.aspx" >
   < siteMapNode title="Media" url="/divisi/division1a/Default.aspx"/ >
   < siteMapNode title="News" url="/divis/division2a/Default.aspx"/ >
   < /siteMapNode >
   < /siteMapNode >
  < /siteMapNode >
< /siteMap >

2) Place the file in _app_bin directory
(eg: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\555\_app_bin\mainmenu.sitemap)

3) Open the web.config file of the corresponding site
(eg c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\555)

4) Look for the "< siteMap" tag, and under "< providers >" add the following entry: and save the file.

< add name="CustomXmlContentMapProvider" siteMapFile="_app_bin/CustomSiteMap.sitemap" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Navigation.SPXmlContentMapProvider, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" / >

5) Open the site on SharePoint Designer, and add the following inside a SharePoint:DelegateControl

   < asp:SiteMapDataSource
ShowStartingNode="true"
SiteMapProvider="CustomXmlContentMapProvider"
id="xmlSiteMap"
runat="server"/ >