Google SitemapAdmin

[hem]

Interesting- I added the 'url' attribute to the xml headers and now Google Webmaster is issuing warnings left right and centre (I forgot the important lesson: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"). It would appear that Google and Sitemap.org do not agree:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...emapValidation

versus

http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#validating

I've checked this issue out- It's all over the web. Anyone that's written a sitemap program have come across it. Even Google's Sitemapper uses this attribute (and then causes issues in Google Webmaster). I cannot find any official response from Google regarding the issue, apart from a French Google Group post where someone said it was a clash between the attribute name and the tag name <URL>.

On the plus side, while it causes a warning in Google Webmaster, it does not stop the sitemaps from being processed.