Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Feed not validating
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Feed not validating

 *  [talyal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talyal/)
 * (@talyal)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-feed-not-validating/)
 * Ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.9 the feed created from this plugin does
   not validate.
 * Is anyone else having the same problem? Any solutions?
 * Here are the errors I am getting:
 * Sorry
    This feed does not validate.
 * line 4, column 0: Undefined root element: urlset [help]
 * <urlset xmlns:xsi=”[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221);
   xsi:schemaLoca …In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers
   could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
 * “text/xml” media type is not specific enough [help]
 * line 4, column 0: Use of unknown namespace: [http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)[
   help]
 * <urlset xmlns:xsi=”[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221);
   xsi:schemaLoca …line 4, column 0: Use of unknown namespace: [http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9](http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9)[
   help]
 * <urlset xmlns:xsi=”[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&#8221);
   xsi:schemaLoca …Source:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-feed-not-validating/#post-1364781)
 * I’ve used this plugin on numerous sites and never had a single problem with the
   output. Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** of the other plugins to see if this resolves the problem?
   If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic
   plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems?

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-feed-not-validating/#post-1364781)
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