Does not perform Entity escaping

[paypal1]

At [external links are visible to admins only] , Google states that you must convert specific characters to UTF-8 encoded format BUT this script does not.

So if you have a link like: [external links are visible to admins only]
It should convert it to this: [external links are visible to admins only]
but it doesn't

Will this be a revision fix down the road for your script?
Thanks

[admin]

Hi,

the generator script certainly encodes all URLs to correspond  UTF-8 encoding, as described at google sitemap protocol.
You can check this at generator demo here:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/generator-demo/

(for instance, this URL:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/generator-demo/index.php?op=chlog&log=3
is stored like:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/generator-demo/index.php?op=chlog&log=3

All other non-UTF characters are encoded too.

If you have some particular problem with your website sitemap creation, please let me know your generator instance in PM and I will check that.

[paypal1]

I am running the latest version: 1.06

What I get in the sitemap.xml file is:

Code:

<loc>http://www.thedomain.com/search_results.php?country=254&region=Florida</loc>

So, NO.....the script does not encode.

[admin]

Hi again,

the script does encode
I just crawled your site with standard PHP Sitemap Generator v1.06 and all '&' signs are urlencoded to '&amp;' correctly!

But I believe I know why you think it doesn't:  perhaps you're checking your sitemap with the browser, which makes the revert operation - it decodes the URLs to show them to you. If you want to see the source of your XML file, please save it to disk and view with some text editor/viewer, not browser.

[admin]

One more thing. You can add your sitemap to your google webmaster account here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

to ensure the sitemap is encoded correctly (google will inform about parser error otherwise)