Yahoo sitemap validation
- by Joel
Hello,
I am trying to submit sitemap.xml (index) to Yahoo Site Explorer but with no luck.
I tried using website feed option in the site explorer to submit the sitemap, but I got validation errors. However, when submitting the same sitemap to google webmaster tools, the sitemap was validated successfully. Could it be for the fact that I am using sitemap with image tag:
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://www.domain.com/pic.jpg</image:loc>
<image:title>picture</image:title>
</image:image>
When I tried validating the sitemap with inline tools such as http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html and http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv the error I received was:
Attempt to load a schema document from
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1
(source: new namespace) for
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1,
failed: Not recognised as W3C XML
Schema or RDDL: html
However, the declaration of the sitemap I use in the top of the document is the same as suggested by Google on their official page at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636 :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
<url>
Any ideas how to resolve this issue?
Thanks,
Joel
Thanks,
Joel
