Sitemap Warning from google

I checked out my sitemap on Google an there was a warning...
What is Leading whitespace?

Here is how it read...

We've detected that your Sitemap file begins with whitespace. We've accepted the file, but you may want to remove the whitespace so that the file adheres to the XML standard.

 

White space is tab or space characters in your file. They are saying that you have spaces or tabs at the beginning of your file.

You should be able to edit the sitemap file with a text editor and remove the white space - then save the file and you should be OK.

If you're on Linux / UNIX you could use sed to parse this out of your file if you're creating a new sitemap regularly:

sed 's/^ //g' filname.xml

(better check the syntax - not sure if it's exactly right!)

HTH,

p

 

Make a simple sitemap for your site. Don't use tabs or white space between the tags...

 

How did you create your sitemap? The program I used is GSiteCrawler and it has an option to remove whitespace at the beginning. Or you could just go in and edit it yourself & remove it.

 

you can create an automatic sitemap at xml-sitemaps.com and that also according to xml standard.

 

There are good freeware programs to make site maps. I don't know if I can post the name here, but you can contact me through PM for the name

 

Hey there,

If your sitemap is dynamic, many dynamic programming languages have a Trim function you can use to get rid of the whitespace at the beginning of the file.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

 

use some sitemap generator to generate your sitemap. And edit your site map using dreamweaver or frontpage or some good editor

 

Yea, thats the easiest way if ya ask me.. Thats how I did it...

 

I would get a proper site map generator that doesn't have this problem in it. There is enought to worry about from Google than this.

Use the GSiteCrawler.