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After submitting [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] to google I received this status error:

Parsing error
We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting.

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Could you please click "Details" on that error to find out more info (line number)?

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Line Number: 107873    
Parsing error
We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting.

The error is in sitemap1.xml

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So the error is in [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]  line number: 107873    

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If you open the sitemap1.xml in a browser, you get a more detailed message:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 107873 at column 1309145: error parsing attribute name
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

please try to add this in "Exclude URLs" setting and recreate sitemap:

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This is odd. I'm now getting this:

Sitemap file size error
Your Sitemap exceeds the maximum file size limit. Please create multiple Sitemaps containing fewer URLs to meet the file size limit.

But [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] is broken down into sitemap1.xml and sitemap2.xml as  you can see if you go to the link.

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

generator has default limit set to 40000 URLs per file, please try to decrease it to say 30000.