Hi, I am trying to create a google sitemap. But my url element which contains three other nodes always have an empty xmlns="" attribute.

This is causing a namespace error when submitting the sitemap.

Below is my code used to create the sitemap.

I would be glad if someone can help me have a url element without the xmlns attribute

I am trying to have this format:

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

<url>

   <loc></loc>

   <lastmod></lastmod>

   <changefreq></changefreq>

</url>

</urlset>

Currently it is like below:

 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

<url xmlns="">

   <loc></loc>

   <lastmod></lastmod>

   <changefreq></changefreq>

</url>

</urlset>

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Try

'if file is not found, create a new xml file

End Try

Dim root As XmlNode = xmlDoc.DocumentElement

xmlDoc.Save("C:\sitemap.xml")

There is actually, sorry i forgot to put it for the example here.

Another guess...

Does the order in which you append things matter?  (It doesn't seem like it should, but...)

Maybe append the problem node before you add children to it, instead of waiting until the end?

That didnt help but thanks for trying.

If anyone needs help with a similar problem , although not being the best practice(as it would be better not to have the xmlns attribute at all):

 1) use the innerXML property of the xml document to get the full xml data

 2)replace the unwanted characters using string.replace

Hi! 

I had the same problem, instead of this:

denniscy:

xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("urlset")

xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "", Nothing, "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9")

Use:

writer.WriteStartElement("urlset", "http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84");