Title: XML Error
Last modified: May 26, 2017

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# XML Error

 *  Resolved [nerdforhire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/groldan/)
 * (@groldan)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-15/)
 * I’m getting the following error on my site map.
 * This page contains the following errors:
 * error on line 3 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the
   document
    Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
 * I have tried disabling all plugins and switching the theme to TwentySeventeen
   to see if those were issues.
 * [https://www.escoffier.edu/sitemap.xml](https://www.escoffier.edu/sitemap.xml)

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 *  [Michael Torbert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hallsofmontezuma/)
 * (@hallsofmontezuma)
 * WordPress Virtuoso
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-15/#post-9171596)
 * [https://semperplugins.com/documentation/this-page-contains-the-following-errors/](https://semperplugins.com/documentation/this-page-contains-the-following-errors/)
 *  Thread Starter [nerdforhire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/groldan/)
 * (@groldan)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-15/#post-9171615)
 * I also checked the config file and no core wp files have been modified. Is there
   anything else I could check for?
 *  Plugin Support [Steve M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmort/)
 * (@wpsmort)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-error-15/#post-9209947)
 * Check all themes and plugins as instructed here – [https://semperplugins.com/documentation/this-page-contains-the-following-errors/](https://semperplugins.com/documentation/this-page-contains-the-following-errors/)

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