{"id":5669200,"date":"2015-01-14T04:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/error-with-sitemap-xml-declaration-on-second-line\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:22:57","slug":"error-with-sitemap-xml-declaration-on-second-line","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/error-with-sitemap-xml-declaration-on-second-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Error with sitemap XML declaration on second line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just recently started seeing this error appear with my sitemap:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This page contains the following errors:<br \/>\nerror on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document<br \/>\nBelow is a rendering of the page up to the first error.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The error, I believe, is because the &lt;?xml \/&gt; declaration is on the second line instead of the first line.<\/p>\n<pre><code>[this line is blank]\n&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;\n[this line is blank]\n&lt;!-- Sitemap dynamically generated by All in One SEO Pack 2.2.4.2 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design on Wed, 14 Jan 2015 04:04:10 UTC --&gt;\n&lt;?xml-stylesheet type=&quot;text\/xsl&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/vitzkrieg.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/all-in-one-seo-pack\/sitemap.xsl&quot;?&gt;\n&lt;urlset xmlns=&quot;http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9&quot;&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/all-in-one-seo-pack\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-5669200","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/5669200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/5669200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}