Title: Sitemap
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Sitemap
* [jamessh1990](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamessh1990/)
* (@jamessh1990)
* [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/)
* Hi,
* i have been using all in one seo for w while now but i have now discovered that
the sitemap is in an unsupported format for google ;
* Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets
our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.
* and when i tried to view it i got this message ;
* XML Parsing Error: junk after document element
Location: [https://jamesdicksonbooks.com/sitemap.xml](https://jamesdicksonbooks.com/sitemap.xml)
Line Number 2, Column 1:Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering
in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0 ^
* Can you help ?
* Thanks, James.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/)
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* Plugin Support [Steve M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmort/)
* (@wpsmort)
* [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/#post-5888457)
* Hi James,
* The problem is caused by a blank in one of the PHP files of your theme. You need
to check all the files of your theme to look for a blank line before the opening
PHP tag or after the closing PHP tag. Once you delete that the sitemap should
work fine and Google should accept it.
* Thread Starter [jamessh1990](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamessh1990/)
* (@jamessh1990)
* [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/#post-5888575)
* Thanks very much for your quick response. I don’t suppose you would know a quick
way to find out which file the problem is in ?
* Thanks, James.
* Thread Starter [jamessh1990](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamessh1990/)
* (@jamessh1990)
* [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/#post-5888576)
* I have just enabled sitemap indexing and it looks like it may have sorted it.
Can you have a look and let me know if it has. Sorry to be a pain, i am new to
this.
* [https://jamesdicksonbooks.com/sitemap.xml](https://jamesdicksonbooks.com/sitemap.xml)
* Thanks again for your help.
* Plugin Support [Steve M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmort/)
* (@wpsmort)
* [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/#post-5888585)
* Hi James,
* I wouldn’t enable sitemap indexes if I were you. Google seems to have a problem
with them and I’ve seen a lot of people report issues with Google when doing
this. Sitemap indexes should only be used when you have over 50,000 URLs on your
XML Sitemap.
* I don’t know a quick and easy way to find blank lines in a PHP file. Its a known
issue with XML that if you have a blank line outside PHP tags then XML will break.
If you search Google you’ll see many results for this and many people asking
if there’s an easy way to find blank lines. Some people have posted solutions
that use egrep and other advanced Linux commands but you’d have to be very good
with Linux to do this. My advise, start with the functions.php file, then the
header.php file, then the footer.php file.
* I do see that you are caching your XML Sitemap using WP Super Cache. This is
an extremely bad idea because then Google could get a cached sitemap and not
the latest sitemap. You need to consult the documentation or support for WP Super
Cache on how to exclude the XML Sitemap from caching.
* Thread Starter [jamessh1990](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamessh1990/)
* (@jamessh1990)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/#post-5888661)
* Hi,
* i think it has sorted it self out now. I disabled sitemap indexing and it seems
to be accessible now. Can you check it when you get a minute just to be safe.
[https://jamesdicksonbooks.com/sitemap.xml](https://jamesdicksonbooks.com/sitemap.xml)
* Thanks for your help, James.
* Plugin Support [Steve M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmort/)
* (@wpsmort)
* [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/#post-5888662)
* Hi James,
* I’m still seeing the original problem which is caused by a blank line in a PHP
file –
* error on line 2 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document
* The best way to resolve this is to find that blank line. Check the main theme
files – functions.php, header.php, footer.php, index.php, page.php and single.
php first.
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* Last reply from: [Steve M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmort/)
* Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-42/#post-5888662)
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