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 More options May 13, 2:02 pm
From: QGBFH
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:02:03 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, May 13 2008 2:02 pm
Subject: XML sitemap format copied from Google - Unsupported File Format
Can someone tell me what's wrong with this format? I copied it
directly from the Google Webmaster siteindex information pages
(changed for my website), yet it comes back as "unsupported file
format":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 < urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  < url>
   < loc>http://paulville.com/</loc>
   < lastmod>2008-05-12</lastmod>
   < changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
   < priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  < url>
   < loc>http://paulville.com/gallery/</loc>
   < lastmod>2008-05-12</lastmod>
   < changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
   < priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  < url>
   < loc>http://paulville.com/for_sale/</loc>
   < lastmod>2008-05-12</lastmod>
   < changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
   < priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
 </urlset>


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 More options May 13, 2:29 pm
From: QGBFH
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:29:29 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, May 13 2008 2:29 pm
Subject: Re: XML sitemap format copied from Google - Unsupported File Format
Never mind, I realized there were "spaces" in the tags.  Weird, I
copied it from Googles sitemap example... They probably should fix
that.

Also, I added a blank line to the top, didn't work.
Removed the blank line at the top, and now it does work.

Must have been some hidden character?  FYI, don't cut and paste your
code from Google's example code.

On May 13, 2:02 pm, QGBFH wrote:


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