Validating a News Sitemap
The following XML schemas define the elements and attributes that can appear in a News Sitemap file. A News Sitemap can contain both News-specific elements and core Sitemap elements. You can download the schemas from the links below:
- For News-specific elements: http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9/sitemap-news.xsd
- For core Sitemap elements: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd
There are a number of tools available to help you validate the structure of your Sitemap based on these schemas. You can find a list of XML-related tools at each of the following locations:
In order to validate your News Sitemap file against a schema, the XML file will need additional headers as shown below:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9 http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9/sitemap-news.xsd"> <url> ... </url> </urlset>