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    Google Sitemap - Unsupported Format

    I have used Mole End site map generator. The file was uploaded to my root directory. The file is called sitemap.xml.

    Google has returned a unspupported file format.

    Here is an example of the breakdown:

    Unsupported file format in Sitemap http://www.stardustkids.co.uk/acatalog/Baby_Elvis.html

    each page has the same result

    Can anyone help.

    www.stardustkids.co.uk
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    #2
    Best contact Jan by email or via the Mole End forums:
    http://www.actinicplugins.co.uk/ME_Forums/

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      #3
      Mole End

      Jans away until Monday and I was hoping to get the problem sorted this weekend. I will email her anyway.
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        #4
        I haven't used Jan's generator but your welcome to look at my file to compare against if it helps:
        http://www.fancylines.co.uk/sitemap.xml
        It looks quite a bit different, although it was created a long time ago using an online utility IIRC - Google accepted it then no problem.

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          #5
          Looked at you sitemap

          I can't see anything obvious. You have more lines than me eg priority etc

          How did you generate your sitemap?
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            #6
            Sorry I can't remember - you might want to try this though:
            https://www.google.com/webmasters/si...generator.html

            I didn't realise that this was a pythin script - sorry.

            This might be better:
            http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html
            Last edited by Duncan Rounding; 22-Apr-2006, 07:22 AM. Reason: Python

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              #7
              I used this http://www.sitemapspal.com/ before using Jan's worked fine.

              Thanks
              Lee
              Many Thanks
              Lee
              Landscape Garden Machinery, Power Tools and Safety Equipment

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                #8
                Submitted Again

                Okay I found a free one on google and submitted it again. Fingers crossed.

                I like your fancylines site. How do you set the coloured background?
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ghome1971
                  I like your fancylines site. How do you set the coloured background?
                  Thanks Geraldine - I set background colours (BGCOLOR) in the BODY and TD tags in Act_Primary, Fragment and Product templates.

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                    #10
                    Ghome1971,
                    The problem appears to be the '-' signs on every line of your file. If I add these to my sitemap.xml, I get the same error as you.

                    If you view a sitemap.xml file using IE, it will automatically put these "-" signs into the page but these are 'page controls' that allow you to collapse sections of the file as you view it. They shouldn't be in the xml file itself.

                    Did you cut and paste the contents of your xml file using IE at some point? If so this will have caused the '-' signs to appear in your xml file.

                    Other than that your sitemap looks OK to me.
                    Try deleting the '-' signs.

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                      #11
                      Yes this is my new site map (not the mole end one). I did cut and paste it from the online version to notepad. I will try and cahnge it

                      Thanks

                      Geraldine
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                        #12
                        I use GSite Crawler from http://johannesmueller.com/gs/ for a real quality sitemap. Google seem to be happy with it, never refused any site I have submitted yet.

                        see http://www.egyptianwonders.co.uk/sitemap.xml
                        Bill
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                          #13
                          Funny dashes still seem to be in the file.

                          I am cuurently trying the G Crawler package which is currently running. Its seems to be doing something that looks good and looks very complicated but is taking a long time. I will keep you posted!
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                            #14
                            There still seems to be a problem. If I click on 'more' in google next to the error message it gives me this message. Does anyone know what it means?

                            The requested URL /docs/en_GB/stats.html was not found on this server

                            Geraldine
                            Stardust Funky Kids T-Shirts

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                              #15
                              Have you sorted this out now?

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