can't submit to google sitemap ... getting 'error'

[mskiby]

when i submit the xml sitemap ... i get back an error ...

Unsupported file format

when i click on my own link in the preferences ... i get the message below:

Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype:http://myhealth.ca/components/com_xmap/gss.xsl

can anyone help??? what do i need to do?

[guilleva]

Hi mskiby, for some reason your web server isn't returning a valid mimetype for xsl files.

If you enter to the following url you can see how should it looks like!
http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/components/com_xmap/gss.xsl

And yours is:
http://myhealth.ca/components/com_xmap/gss.xsl

[mskiby]

so does anyone know what is causing this?

any suggestions on fixing it?

[guilleva]

Well, here is a workaround for this:

Edit the file xmap.xml.php and delete the next line:

[code:de6f37e3]
echo '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="'. $mosConfig_live_site.'/components/com_xmap/gss.xsl"?>'."
";
[/code:de6f37e3]

With that, you should be able to view your google sitemap with the browser.

You can also try to submit your sitemap to google again.

Regards

[mskiby]

i dont see that line in the file you mentioned ...

this is what i have ...

browserNav) )
$node-&gt;browserNav = 0;

if( !isset($node-&gt;priority) )
$node-&gt;priority = $priority;

if( !isset($node-&gt;changefreq) )
$node-&gt;changefreq= $changefreq;


if ( $node-&gt;browserNav != 3 // ignore &quot;no link&quot;
&amp;&amp; !$is_extern // ignore external links
&amp;&amp; !in_array($link, $_xmap_xml_added) ) { // ignore links that have been added already

$count++;
$_xmap_xml_added[] = $link;

$out .= &quot;
&quot;;
$out .= &quot;&quot;. $link .&quot;
&quot;; // http://complete-url
$timestamp = (isset($node-&gt;modified) &amp;&amp; $node-&gt;modified != FALSE &amp;&amp; $node-&gt;modified != -1) ? $node-&gt;modified : time();
$modified = gmdate('Y-m-dTH:i:s', $timestamp); // ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.sTZD
$out .= &quot;{$modified}
&quot;;

$out .= &quot;&quot;.$node-&gt;changefreq.&quot;
&quot;; // valid: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never
$out .= &quot;&quot;.$node-&gt;priority.&quot;
&quot;; // valid: 0.0 - 1.0

$out .= &quot;
&quot;;
}

if( isset($node-&gt;tree) ) {
$out .= XmapXML::getList( $node-&gt;tree,$priority,$changefreq,$count );
}
}
return $out;
}

/** Print a XML Sitemaps representation of tree */
function printTree( &amp;$xmap,&amp;$sitemap, &amp;$root ) {
global $mosConfig_live_site;
@ob_end_clean();
$GLOBALS['_xmap_xml_added'] = array();
echo ''.&quot;
&quot;;
echo ''.&quot;
&quot;;

echo ''.&quot;
&quot;;

$tmp = array();
$count=0;
foreach( $root as $menu ) { // concatenate all menu-trees
echo XmapXML::getList( $menu-&gt;tree, $menu-&gt;priority,$menu-&gt;changefreq,$count );
}
echo &quot;
&quot;;
return $count;
}

function escapeURL($str) {
static $xTrans;
if (!isset($xTrans)) {
$xTrans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES);
foreach ($xTrans as $key =&gt; $value)
$xTrans[$key] = '&amp;#'.ord($key).';';
// dont translate the '&amp;' in case it is part of &amp;xxx;
$xTrans[chr(38)] = '&amp;';
}
return preg_replace(&quot;/&amp;(?![A-Za-z]{0,4}w{2,3};|#[0-9]{2,4};)/&quot;,&quot;&amp;&quot; , strtr($str, $xTrans));
}
}

[ranieri71]

I am having this exact same problem. Same error, also do not have the referenced information in the php file.

[ranieri71]

my problem turned out it was simply not working in firefox, it worked in IE and submitted to google without any issues.

[guilleva]

Hi, thanks for reporting that, is still anybody having this problem with google?

[abhinay]

Dear All,

Even i am facing the same problem. I have submitted the link of my sitemap in google webmaster tools, however it is showing me an error. I would like to request you to please help me sort this problem.

Please find the attached image for reference.

Regards,
Abhinay Desai

www.trendzmatter.com

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[guilleva]

Hi, I have noticed almost all of your urls have spaces and some have special chars within them. This isn't a good seo practice. Maybe you can edit your article title aliases replacing the spaces with a dash "-" for example and removing spacial characters like ! and ?

Joomla 1.5 uses the alias to generate the friendly url