XML document must have a top level element

[philipdhuy]

Hi there
I have a site [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]
I have generated on-line a sitemap. This came up with the following error:
XML Parsing Error: no element found
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Line Number 1, Column 1:
I have copied the sitemap.xml to the root of the website.
When testing from your site I get the following error
XML document must have a top level element. Error processing resource '[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

Any ideas why this would happen?
regards Philip

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

try to submit your sitemap to Google:
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[philipdhuy]

I did put it forward to google and the site does come up when searching google.
I guess that is good, however I wonder why I receive errors when running your tool.

Philip

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Yes, it means that sitemap is fine. Perhaps that was a temporary issue with w3c validator.

[philipdhuy]

Today I ran the generator again and it worked without a hitch.
Thanks, Philip