Title: parsing error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# parsing error

 *  [marklovetv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marklovetv/)
 * (@marklovetv)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parsing-error-5/)
 * Getting the following error when I try to view sitemap. Any idea what is causing
   it?
 * XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
    Location: 
   [http://michelandward.com/sitemap.xml](http://michelandward.com/sitemap.xml) 
   Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><?xml-stylesheet
   type=”text/xsl” href=”[http://michelandward.com/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl&#8221](http://michelandward.com/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl&#8221);?
   ><!– generator=”wordpress/3.8.3″ –> ^
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)

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 *  [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/)
 * (@arnee)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parsing-error-5/#post-4885929)
 * [@marklovetv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marklovetv/), please see here
   about this problem:
 * [http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/help/#P221_gwtinvxml](http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/help/#P221_gwtinvxml)

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 * Last reply from: [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parsing-error-5/#post-4885929)
 * Status: not resolved