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Sitemap error

#663212

Resolved Mantodea
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Rank Math free

Hello,

your rankmath plugin fails in generating the sitemap:
https://mistresskym.com/sitemap_index.xml

Threw the error “rankmath sitemap xml parsing error XML or text declaration not at start of entity” and I tried to follow what’s in here:
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/xml-parsing-error-3/
and
https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-sitemap-issues/#xml-text-declaration
but my wp-config and functions.php are FULL of empty rows… that’s normal to keep the code organized. I don’t want to get rid of all lines/rows spaces, that’s non sense cause I will understand a thing about the code in there anymore!!
So it’s not a wise advice to give.

Anyway, recently the sitemap error changed into “Error loading stylesheet: Parsing an XSLT stylesheet failed.”

And apparently there is no solution to that error in your KB… would you help me with this error?

Thanks
kind regards

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Reinelle
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for the delay and for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

We’ve checked your sitemaps, but they seem to be working fine.

For troubleshooting, please follow the steps to flush the sitemap cache (if not yet):

1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

Once done, remove all your submitted sitemaps and resubmit your main sitemap only to your Google Search Console account:
https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Mantodea
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Rank Math free

thanks, yes indeed, I don’t know why, but the problem solved by itself.
But I applied the 3 advices you gave me anyway
thanks a lot

Reinelle
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hello,

Glad that helped.

If you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime to assist you further.

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

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