Sitemap Validation

[rayhab]

Hello,
I am currently running my xml sitemap i've created through test to make sure it's valid.

I am using http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html to validate.

The problem i keep running into is the following error message:

Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05

* Target: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
(Real name: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
Length: 2748809 bytes

Last Modified: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:26:44 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS))
* docElt: {http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.90}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


Schema resources involved

Attempt to load a schema document from
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.90
(source: docElt) for
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.90,
failed:

couldn't open

It seems that is can't open http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.90 ?

I don't think it's the problem with my xml, since i ran a test on the following and got the same error:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.90">
<url>
<loc>http://www.sitemappro.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2010-01-27T23:55:42+01:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

Anyone have any ideas?

[rayhab]

Just an updated.. i changed the header of the url set to
<?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">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

Now i get a new error:
Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05

* Target: http://www.mysite.com/sitetest.xml
(Real name: http://www.mysite.com/sitetest.xml
Length: 284 bytes

Last Modified: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:34:34 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS))
* 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:

[Tejji]

Why don't you create new sitemap using Sitemap (http://sitemap.tejji.com/) and then validate. The tool create sitemaps as per sitemaps.org standard which is recognized across search engines

[Apice Internet]

Use the site

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

SEO Otimização de Sites (http://www.sitesparaempresa.com.br/otimizacao-de-sites-seo/)

[php developer]

Yes, i also use xml-sitemaps.com for create sitemap.xml it's really good site.

[Tejji]

Sitemap (http://sitemap.tejji.com/) tool allow you to create sitemap for site with more than 50000 urls. It is worth a try.

[woocom.com.au]

nice one mate. tejji sitemap looks good

[stefanraj]

Site map is very much important for a huge website.. for example the portal sites are all having a more then a 5000+ pages, so the users get confusion.. so that only site map is very much important..