I have installed snorockets google sitemap generator. After some problems of my own making I got it to work and it appears to work great.
But when I run my sitemap through a validator I get the following:
[COLOR=“Blue”]Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05
Schema validator crashed
The maintainers of XSV will be notified, you don’t need to
send mail about this unless you have extra information to provide.
If there are Schema errors reported below, try correcting
them and re-running the validation.
* Target: [url]http://www.zackshats.com/index.php?target=google_sitemap[/url]
(Real name: [url]http://www.zackshats.com/index.php?target=exceptions&no_page=&csid=d6d98fee0328dae669626b3f2d05d193&sl=EN¤cy=usd[/url]
Last Modified: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:02:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.63 (Unix))
* The target was not assessed
Low-level XML well-formedness and/or validity processing output
Error: Expected name, but got for entity
in unnamed entity at line 306 char 94 of [url]http://www.zackshats.com/index.php?target=google_sitemap[/url][/COLOR]
I do generate a sitemap when I input: index.php?target=xml_sitemap but it won’t validate.
Any idea why this would be happening?
Thanks to all for the great help I have received in the past.
Hi Capias, the link you should be using is:
[url]http://www.zackshats.com/index.php?target=xml_sitemap[/url]
I checked the validation of your site and did find a minor error of my own, however your site validated just fine, don’t worry about what these validators say, as long as google likes your xml sitemap your golden, post your sitemap link in your google webmaster tools admin panel and see what google says…
[b]the fix, in [color=blue]include/customer/xml_sitemap.php[/color] , find on [color=red]line 45[/color] [url]http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.9[/url] and change to [url]http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84[/url][/b]
The results of validating your site are below:
Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05
* Target: [url]http://www.zackshats.com/index.php?target=xml_sitemap[/url]
(Real name: [url]http://www.zackshats.com/index.php?target=xml_sitemap[/url]
Last Modified: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:44:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.63 (Unix))
* docElt: {http://www.google.com/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