Site Definition Architecture

If some one is looking for a basic site definition template or skeleton or wants to see what site definition consists of then please check below. It has also got XML namespace for SharePoint which will allow the intellisense when you eidt the file in Visual Studio:

You will have to remove single quote ( ' ) from the opening and closing angle brackets to use this. Sorry for this as they were being removed when publishing.

'<'?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?'>'
'<'Project Title="My Site Definition" Revision="0" ListDir="Lists" xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"'>'
'<'NavBars /'>'
'<'DocumentTemplates /'>'
'<'Configurations'>'
'<'Configuration ID="-1" Name="NewWeb" /'>'
'<'Configuration ID="0" Name="Default"'>'
'<'Lists'>'
'<'/Lists'>'
'<'Modules'>'
'<'Module Name="Default" /'>'
'<'/Modules'>'
'<'SiteFeatures /'>'
'<'WebFeatures /'>'
'<'/Configuration'>'
'<'/Configurations'>'
'<'Modules'>'
'<'Module Name="Default" Url="" '>'
'<'File Url="default.aspx" NavBarHome="True" Type="Ghostable"'>''<'/File'>'
'<'/Module'>'
'<'/Modules'>'
'<'/Project'>'