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Why two generators make totally different Sitemaps??

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by tayiper, Nov 28, 2006.

  1. #1
    One of Google Sitemap generators is the one at the "Mypagerank" site: http://www.mypagerank.net/google_sitemap_creator.html and the other at "XML Sitemaps": http://www.xml-sitemaps.com, and both generated "sitemap.xml" files are not valid when processed with "Google Sitemap Validator": http://www.validome.org/google (oh and btw. what's "Sitemap-index", which is a second option beside "Sitemap" to choose when validating); I mean I needed to "merge" them to be valid (mostly it was incorrect syntax in the XML header), i.e. I used some of the syntax from the "sitemap.xml" file generated on one site and some of the syntax from "sitemap.xml" file generated on the other site to be valid at the end.


    Incorrect syntax 1:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
    <url>
    Code (markup):
    Incorrect syntax 2:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <urlset
          xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="
                http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
                http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/09/sitemap.xsd">
    <url>
    Code (markup):
    The correct syntax:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <urlset
          xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">
    <url>
    Code (markup):
    thanks, tayiper
     
    tayiper, Nov 28, 2006 IP
  2. Imran

    Imran Notable Member

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    #2
    It depends on what version of what script they are using to generate.
    some ppl use this:
    echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?' . '>
    <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">';
    Code (markup):
    and others as u mentioned.
    I guess all these are valid sitemaps.
    If you want to know more which one is valid and which one isnt.
    then https://www.google.com/webmasters/ is the place to look for.
     
    Imran, Nov 29, 2006 IP
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    hhheng Banned

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    i have been using xml-sitemaps and it seems to work fine for me.
     
    seo_kate, Nov 29, 2006 IP
  6. tayiper

    tayiper Active Member

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    Thanks all for the replies ...

    Yeah, I didn't say that it doesn't work, I just said that it generates a "sitemap.xml" file that is not valid when processed with "Google Sitemap Validator": http://www.validome.org/google.


    tayiper
     
    tayiper, Nov 30, 2006 IP
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    site map contains all link of web site.
    u can find all link of website through site map.
     
    jitendra, Dec 1, 2006 IP
  8. tayiper

    tayiper Active Member

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    Hmmm OK yeah, but I must confess that I am not sure what's the point of your reply (post count maybe??), I mean we surely all know that ...


    tayiper
     
    tayiper, Dec 6, 2006 IP