I have a sitemap, that is using the "&" sign in some of the url's...
Do I use "&" or "%26" to replace those or something else?
Reason for asking:
When I do a validation using either &, & or %26, I get this returned:
Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05
* Target: http://www.worldofrugs.com/sitemap.xml
(Real name: http://www.worldofrugs.com/sitemap.xml
Length: 39914 bytes
Last Modified: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:15:17 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0)
* docElt: {http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84}urlset
* schemaLocs: http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 -> http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd
* The schema(s) used for schema-validation had
no errors
* The target was not assessed
Low-level XML well-formedness and/or validity processing output
Error: Expected > at end of entity declaration, but got -
in unnamed entity at line 81 char 5 of http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156184 has no elements???
Error: can't retrieve "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd": 503 Service Unavailable due to Unknown abuse from requesting IP
Error: Couldn't open dtd entity http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
in unnamed entity at line 1 char 122 of http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/ has no elements???
Schema resources involved
Attempt to load a schema document from
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd
(source: schemaLoc) for
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84,
failed:
Attempt to load a schema document from
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
(source: docElt) for
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84,
failed:
So I'm kind of unsure if this validated now or not and if not, what's wrong?
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