Google is rejecting my sitemap - any idea why?

[sam0077]

Hello, I have a simple 9-page web site.  I submitted a sitemap to Google and I received an error message that  it was in an Unsupported file format.  Strangely enough I copied and pasted their example into a file in Notepad++, changed the URLs to my website and saved it.  And I must have done something wrong (!).

In any case, could anyone point out what I did wrong? Here it is :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  < urlset xmlns="[external links are visible to admins only]">
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>[external links are visible to admins only]</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
  </urlset>

[netheo]

Haven't you downloaded one from this site?

What's the filename for your sitemap?

[admin]

Hello,

instead of copy'n'pasting URLs, you should create sitemap using online sitemap generator, then save it to your computed and upload to your site.