# OT: Failing site map

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-failing-site-map/144282>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 28, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-failing-site-map/144282 "2008-07-28T07:14:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-failing-site-map/144282/1 "2008-07-28T07:14:05Z")

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For some reason google keeps telling me there is something wrong with my  
sitemap. After reading the specs over and over of what is required I  
can’t find what is the problem.

Here is the sitemap index file ie contains links to all the other  
sitemap files.

\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\> http://judyolsen.com/judyolsen.xml 2008-07-28 http://demo.onlinelistings.ca/demo.xml 2008-07-28 http://test.onlinelistings.ca/test.xml 2008-07-28 http://soldonslavelake.onlinelistings.ca/soldonslavelake.xml 2008-07-28 http://DaveGaskell.onlinelistings.ca/DaveGaskell.xml 2008-07-28 

This is what google says:  
Unsupported file format  
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure  
it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

If anyone has had any luck getting it to work I would really appreciate  
it if you could help me out.

Thanks so much.

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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-failing-site-map/144282/2 "2008-07-28T16:38:34Z")

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\*\* Update  
It turns out it wasn’t the sitemap that was failing it was that I was  
missing some additional attributes in the sitemapindex tag to prevent it  
from being  
validated.