Question

Sitemap.XML Validation

Asked by: rkmilam

Hi,
I'm new to web design/construction.  I've spent the last several months building my web site for my new company.  Now, I'm ready to launch.  So I've spent a fair amount of time reading through Google's webmaster conent in an effort to have my site indexed.  In doing so, I decided to build an XML sitemap.  I  uploaded the sitemap - and several days later Google informed me that several of my 49 pages contained  401/407 authentication errors.  Appearently, my sitemap incorrectly listed each page name with a trailing "/" (for example, as www.example.com/Page.html/   instead of www.example.com/Page.html).  So I corrected my Sitemap.XML file and resubmitted it ot Google.  Now, I'm wiating for Google's next move....and waiting.

Out of fear that my second attempt might also be flawed, I decided to look for a SiteMap validator (which you probably thinking would have been a wise move during PRIOR to my first attempt but like I said, Im new to this).  I went to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/.  I entered my sitemap address - crossed my fingers - and received feedback that I cannot decipher.  The feedback says:

Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05
"      Target: http://www.Thermoporecorp.com/Sitemap.xml
   (Real name: http://www.Thermoporecorp.com/Sitemap.xml
    Length: 8305 bytes
    Last Modified: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:02:54 GMT
    Server: YTS/1.17.9)
"      docElt: {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}urlset
"      No declaration for document root found, validation was lax
"      The schema(s) used for schema-validation had no errors
"      No schema-validity problems were found in the target
________________________________________
Low-level XML well-formedness and/or validity processing output
Error: Expected whitespace after public id
 in unnamed entity at line 1 char 55 of http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/ has no elements???
________________________________________
Schema resources involved
Attempt to load a schema document from http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 (source: docElt) for http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9, failed:

Can you take a look at my XML file and let me know what corrections I should make to the file?
www.thermoporecorp.com/Sitemap.xml

Thanks,
Ken Milam

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2009-02-10 at 03:30:08ID24128959
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Extensible Markup Language (XML)

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by: TiggeritoPosted on 2009-02-10 at 06:47:55ID: 23600882

Your sitemap looks fine.

The validation tool seems to be trying to load the specified namespace as an xml file which it is not, and does not need to be.

I reference the same namespace and my sitemap is accepted by Google





 

by: rkmilamPosted on 2009-02-10 at 07:13:45ID: 31544964

Thanks for the quick reply.

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