Not sure why this code was added?

The home page for this handmade furniture website had this code

$outputstrg = htmlentities("<url>"). "<br />". htmlentities("<loc>").$urltest .$town . htmlentities("</loc>") . "<br />" . htmlentities("</url>");

I removed it and it had no effect, any idea why it was there and what it was supposed to do?

via Chebli Mohamed