Sitemap xml codes...

Does this entire thing has to be pasted on the top before all the URLs pages?

<?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/0.9/sitemap.xsd">

OR
We can simply use the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
< urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
< url>
< loc>http://www.example.com/index.html</loc>
< changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
< priority>0.5</priority>
</url>

 

I think you only need to declare it once. HTH

 

Out of these two which one to use and what's the difference?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
< urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

OR

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">

 

If you want an example (and not use a sitemapper program) take a look at: http://www.micro-sys.dk/sitemap.xml

 

Still not clear. If I paste script coding like this at the top followed by 50 pages URLs in sitemap.xml file, will this be ok?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
< urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
< url>
< loc>http://www.example.com/index.html</loc>
< changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
< priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
and so on so forth....all the urls

</urlset>

 

no it should e in the page sitemap.xml

 

Yes - each separate page needs to be contained within < url> and < /url> tags (without the spaces) and all these need to be contained within the urlset tags.

The first line containing the XML version appears only once.

 

I thought there was a desc tag?