Broken sitemap.xml issue

#941529
  • Resolved Jason Lim

    11 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Hello,

    I encountered an issue with the sitemap on my site. The error message states:

    This page contains the following errors:
    Error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
    Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

    Is there a way to fix this issue?

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  • Rakibuzzaman Siam

    11 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    This sitemap error indicates that there must be some white space before the XML Sitemap’s source code. You can also look at the source code of Sitemap and you’ll see there is an extra line before the XML. This is caused by a blank line or space in your wp-config.php or functions.php file.

    Please follow this troubleshooting guide to fix that issue:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-sitemap-issues/#xml-text-declaration

    Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

    Jason Lim

    11 months, 1 week ago

    Rank Math free

    The issue is all sorted now. Thank you for your assistance!

    Princess

    11 months, 1 week ago

    Hello,

    Glad that everything has been sorted out.

    Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.

    We are here to help.

    Thank you.

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