Hi David,
All of my sitemaps seem to be working with the exception of two that are giving me an error in Google Webmaster which are .xml versus .txt.....
Missing XML tag
This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
Additionally, trying to load the sitemap in Firefox throws this error...
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: {link saved}
Line Number 2, Column 1:
^
I occasionally get this error on other sitemaps, like tonight I can't seem to get any to show correctly in my browser.
Strangely the product counts weren't zero in the admin, but when I checked the merchant pages there was nothing there. I reregistered the feed and everything seems fine. One thing I noticed is these .xml feeds do not show up on the slow import page. I'll let you know if the feeds seem to disappear again.
Cheers, Jon
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Hi Jon,
That's good news. As it stands the Slow Import Tool does not support XML, but that's something i'm looking in to!
Cheers,
David.
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Hi,
The particular sitemaps error appears to be because the actual sitemap file is empty - i.e. it does not contain any URLs, which should tally with the product count being zero alongside the MountainGearGeneral.xml feed in your /admin/ area - so I would double check if that appears to be the case - it should just be a case of re-registering and re-importing the feed to re-instate the products from it.
Regarding the Firefox error (which isn't a problem for Google as it ignores pre-amble in the XML stream), this is because a line of white space appears before the opening XML entity. Check your sitemap.php file and make sure that there is no white space before the opening
tag - if so, delete and re-upload the file; that should be all it is...Cheers,
David.
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