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I got this error when trying to generate the Google sitemap. "string not recognized as a valid Date Time. "
It probably has something to do with the date section of preferences which I changed several times but It didn't go away.
I could never generate the sitemap.
Please help.
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Where are you located?
Some countries reverse the date sequence but the software should handle it.
Please zip up and send me your "sitemaps" folder.
I can then look at the file and provide resolution.
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I made a private post middle of last week and also sent you an email giving you the url in question and explaining that I am eastern zone us and can't sent a sitemap because I have exceeded my five tries.
Please help so I will feel comfortable buying the full version, Thanks
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printseller,
I apologize for the delay. I will investigate this today and get back to you ASAP.
Thanks,
Brian
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I just ran the latest version against your website and it had no issues. It spidered successfully, I could edit the results and it generated all of the sitemaps with no problem. Please uninstall the version you have and download & install the latest version. I reset the spider count and you can try it against your site again. http://www.iarchitect.net/Products/Sitemap-Generator/If you have any issues, let me know. Please try to send a screenshot or the error message. Thanks, Brian iArchitect
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Thanks for taking a look. Uninstalling and then reinstalling seemed to work. It must have been something in the original install that caused the problem. The version in both cases was the same.
Another question? When viewing the sitemap.xml file, each url is formatted horizontally as opposed to vertically like most sitemap generators. Do you have plans to change this? Could this be a preference item?
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Not exactly sure what you mean. Please elborate so we can look into adding this as a feature.
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When you open sitemap.xml in dreamweaver for instance there is no return after each url data. They just go on to the right continuously.
It would be nice if there were a return after each url definition so one could easily view them in a vertical scroll.
Example:
<url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url><url></url>v<url></url><url></url>
Desired look:
<url></url>
<url></url>
<url></url>
<url></url>
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Oh OK...that's easy enough. I'm adding it to the Suggestions...will be in the next release.
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iArchitect wrote:Oh OK...that's easy enough. I'm adding it to the Suggestions...will be in the next release. 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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We could probably publish a DTD.
Nobody else has asked for it, so it'll need to be a low prioirty.
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iArchitect wrote:We could probably publish a DTD.
Nobody else has asked for it, so it'll need to be a low prioirty.
Not a problem with the low priority, thanks for getting back. It's only visual issue, not functional I guess. (if the OP wants to display the sitemap in 'a' browser). The sitemap will fail validation without out, or is it just a warning without the DTD... (I really should go prove it but its late so excuse my laziness).
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These requests are being handled in v5.0 set to be released 1/23/08.
Thanks,
iArchitect
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