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CH
Posted: Monday, December 03, 2007 3:12:51 PM
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I'm following a post from Shiner (see below).

Our SEO guy tells us that a better DTD would be <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> instead of <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"> that apparently Yahoo does not like too much.

Let me know, thanks

CH


In a related issue, there is no DTD (xsd) specified within the sitemap file, which causes the data not to be displayed formatted.
(Which is probably why the missing /n gets noticed more).

Will you be adding a DTD ?

(an example)
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">

I don't have a clue about whether the requirement/standard is to have on.
I know that functionality wise it doesn't matter.

I know that in order to validate the sitemap, you do need that section. (http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#validating)

Regards

Chris
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Posted: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:09:52 PM
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CH,

Thanks for pointing that out.
I checked Google's documentation and apparently it has changed recently.
We will update the application for this month's release (expected around the 20th).

Thanks,
Brian
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Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:03:21 PM
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This update will be completed in v5.0 set to be released 1/23/08.

Thanks,
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