Title: Sitemap caption errors
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sitemap caption errors

 *  [James Laws](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameslaws/)
 * (@jameslaws)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-caption-errors/)
 * WordPress version: 3.5.1
    WordPress SEO version: 1.4.7
 * I did this: Activated it and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools
 * I expected the plugin to do this: I expected error free sitemaps
 * Instead it did this: 7 errors and the xml doesn’t validate.
 * 1
 * Errors
    Parsing error We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an 
   entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting.
   7 Sitemap: [http://www.macular.net/news-sitemap.xml](http://www.macular.net/news-sitemap.xml)
   45 Apr 17, 2013 Sitemap: [http://www.macular.net/post_tag-sitemap.xml](http://www.macular.net/post_tag-sitemap.xml)
   376 Apr 17, 2013 Sitemap: [http://www.macular.net/post-sitemap.xml](http://www.macular.net/post-sitemap.xml)
   149 Apr 16, 2013
 * All of these lines mentioned here are the html credit comment at the end of the
   file
 * but I also get these caption parse errors when I try to validate the xml.
 * Schema: Failed
    Error 1871: Element ‘{http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/
   1.1}caption’: This element is not expected. Expected is ( {http://www.google.
   com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1}license ). in [http://www.macular.net/news-sitemap.xml](http://www.macular.net/news-sitemap.xml)
   on line 34 column 0 Error 1871: Element ‘{http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-
   image/1.1}caption’: This element is not expected. Expected is ( {http://www.google.
   com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1}license ). in [http://www.macular.net/news-sitemap.xml](http://www.macular.net/news-sitemap.xml)
   on line 39 column 0
 * Any suggestions or fixes would be greatly appreciated.
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-caption-errors/)
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