quick utility

sitemaptotextfile.js

// bring in required modules
var fs = require('fs'),
    util = require('util'),
    jsdom = require('jsdom');

var output = "", texts;

// read sitemap.xml into string
fs.readFile('sitemap.xml', 'utf8', function(err, data) {
  if (err) throw err;

  // build DOM and bring in jQuery
  jsdom.env(data, ['http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.min.js'], function(err, window) {

    if (err) throw err;

    var $ = window.$;

    // map over nodes for URLs
    texts = $.map( $('url loc'), function(val, i) {
      return $(val).text();
    });

    // alphabetize
    texts.sort();

    // build up output string
    texts.forEach(function(text) {
      output += text + "\n";
    });

    // write output string to file
    var fname = util.format("url-list-%s.txt", Date.now());
    fs.writeFile(fname, output, 'utf8', function() {
      console.log(util.format("Wrote %s URLs to %s", texts.length, fname));
    });

  });
});