Title: XML Sitemap Generation Issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# XML Sitemap Generation Issue

 *  [ashbullman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashbullman/)
 * (@ashbullman)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemap-generation-issue/)
 * Hi Everyone,
    I have installed Yoast, and when trying to view the site map all
   i get is:
 * **This page contains the following errors:**
 * error on line 2 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.
 * After browsing this forum, the main culprit seemed to be conflicting plugins,
   however I tried deactivating them one by one to no effect, and so i deactivated
   all of them and tried again, but also to no effect!
 * Anybody have any idea?
 * many thanks
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## Tags

 * [sitemaps](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sitemaps/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)
 * [Yoast](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/yoast/)

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 * Last reply from: [ashbullman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashbullman/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemap-generation-issue/)
 * Status: not resolved