Umb V10.6.1 site in 3 languages including ar-ae (Arabic). I have a sitemap based on the one in the docs. The priority value is coming out as 0,5 for the ar-ae one, but as 0.5 for en-gb & ar-en. I'm being told that Google is complaining about the comma decimal designator. However, when I run it through an xmlsite map checker it passes. I've tried outputting the value as InvariantCulture, and when debugging, it shows it as 0.5, but when I run the page in a browser, it still shows 0,5. Here is the code I've tried so far:-

void RenderSiteMapUrlEntry(IPublishedContent node)
    {
        var changeFreq = node.Value("searchEngineChangeFrequency", fallback: Fallback.To(Fallback.Ancestors, Fallback.DefaultValue), defaultValue: "monthly");
        // with the relative priority, this is a per page setting only, so we're not using recursion, so we won't set Fallback.ToAncestors here and we'll default to 0.5 if no value is set
        decimal priority = 0.5m;
        
        if (node.HasValue("searchEngineRelativePriority")) {
            string priorityConverted = node.Value<decimal>("searchEngineRelativePriority").ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
            priority = decimal.Parse(priorityConverted, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        }

        <url>
            <loc>@node.Url(mode: UrlMode.Absolute)</loc>
            <lastmod>@(string.Format("{0:s}+00:00", node.UpdateDate))</lastmod>
            <changefreq>@changeFreq</changefreq>
            <priority>@priority</priority>  // Shows 0.5 here but 0,5 in the browser!
        </url>
    }

I have changed the fallback priority to something other than 0.5 and it all remains as it should, so I know the "if" statement is working. I also tried setting the priority not to vary by culture in the docType composition, but it still changes with language. I think it should vary by language anyway so that editors can set it appropriately for the market. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

So priority is a decimal, and you're just calling

@priority

which means that it will do the default ToString that is configured on the decimal. Have you tried using

@priority.ToString("F",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

?

Not quite, I'm doing much more than that:-

if (node.HasValue("searchEngineRelativePriority")) {
            string priorityConverted = node.Value<decimal>("searchEngineRelativePriority").ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
            **priority** = decimal.Parse(priorityConverted, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        }

You're parsing it as invariant and then you're displaying it as a string which will format it using the culture that is set in the request

It all depends on what explanations and examples you land on when searching. Obviously mine were way off. Yours worked. Thanks. 🙂