xml sitemap for large e-commerce site

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Hi there

I've got an issue with one of the websites I look after.

The website www(dot)more-control-shop(dot)co(dot)uk is a large e-commerce based webshop which lists the majority of the product I sell. On it there are around 150000 different products.

It's powered by ancient version of ZenCart. What I'm trying to do is create an xml sitemap for this website as many of the urls have changed over time and Googlewebmaster is screaming at me for errors and not picking up urls.

The problem is with ZenCart the sitemap xml generator keeps timing out.

If I try and use an external generator the generated itself crashes along with the website after a few thousand pages.

So long story short, is there either a) a method of filtering a sitemap generator to pick up a limited number of pages each time so that I can make multiple sitemaps to cover all the products

The main issue with the urls of the products is the url goes like this:

domain name / part number / page number

Example url:
www(dot)more-control-shop(dot)co(dot)uk/e3fa-bn21-p-340998.html

So I'm having difficulties trying to work out how I would setup an exclude list / filtering

b) an off the shelf bolt on generator that I could attached to the webshop to generate directly the sitemap

If you have any solutions that would be grand
#ecommerce #large #site #sitemap #xml
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    You can ignore this problem, a colleague of mine came up with a simple solution.

    Increase the memory space on the zen cart database to process the sitemap and then simply breakdown the sitemap into folders no bigger than 50,000 links and then upload to webmaster tools
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