Title: Sitemap Error
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Sitemap Error

 *  Resolved [ps16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ps16/)
 * (@ps16)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-41/)
 * Hi
 * The plugin created the sitemap at the following [http://tamilgoose.com/sitemap.xml](http://tamilgoose.com/sitemap.xml)
   
   When I submitted the same to search console I get the following error. “Your 
   Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.”
 * Kindly help me resolve the issue
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-41/#post-7440530)
 * Hi, as far as I can see, the sitemap source code is compressed (a little) by 
   stripping line breaks and comments. This causes the XML markup to become invalid.
 * Do you know what is doing this compressing? It can be a WordPress plugin or a
   server side Nginx module like PageSpeed.
 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-41/#post-7440533)
 * Hmmm, looking at your html source I see you are using both PageSpeed and a caching
   plugin (W3TC?) …
 * Start with adding your XML sitemaps to the plugin exception rules.
 *  Thread Starter [ps16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ps16/)
 * (@ps16)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-41/#post-7440543)
 * Okay I excluded Sitemap.xml in the W3 Cache plugin. Deactivated And reinstalled
   XML Sitemaps plugin. But still sitemap seems to be compressed. Any idea?
 *  Thread Starter [ps16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ps16/)
 * (@ps16)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-41/#post-7440544)
 * It is fine 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [ps16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ps16/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-41/#post-7440544)
 * Status: resolved