can googlebot read xml?

xml googlebot

[stepsahe]

Does googlebot read xml files?

I would like to make a xml xsl website. Nevertheless , i got a xsl xml file into my website. And i think that googlebot didn't read contents.

[mykel]

I did an experiment some months ago with XML. I did one of my subpages using it. It got indexed, but it can only be found when typing in the file name. And even then it says:"file format unrecognized". So I guess for now XML/XSL is not a good idea.
You could of course make the site using XML and then use one of many available programs to parse it on your pc,produce normal html pages and upload them to your server.

[PatrickDeese]

According to google:

[google.com...]

XML is included in the filetypes that they can parse.

FWIW, I converted the site map for one of my sites from HTML to XML using one of the W3 validator tools (or maybe it was an offsite link to it, can't remember), and Google has it cached and it looks fine.

[GoogleGuy]

I think we index it, but probably as regular text.

[stepsahe]

ok , googlebot indexes xml file name.

but does he index xml contents as an html page? .

[stepsahe]

can someone advises me for an xml to html parser before uploading to server?