[Plugin: XML Sitemap & Google News Sitemap Feeds] XML Parsing Error: no element found

If your site is very large, you might be running into a memory limit. You should be able to see errors to that effect in your error logs.

In any case, please try the development version, which uses a higher temporary memory limit adjustment: https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed.zip

thanks – i will test and report. could it also be odd characters? i know that can cause issues in feeds.

I’d be interested in any odd characters causing issues. If the problem remains, could you post a link so I can take a look?

same error with development version (in firefox) (in ie it says it can’t display):

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: https://mysite.com/sitemap.xml
Line Number 7, Column 1:
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it is somehting on this site in particular becuase it is working fine on other of my sites. ???

url: https://tinyurl.com/4p6doko

another note. i am exlcuding some categories from my homepage. these excluded categories to not seem to appear in the feed.

do you have access to error logs? if so, please check for “out of memory” errors.

about the excluded categories, what method are you using to exclude these? is that done via a plugin or via theme settings or a custom home.php template?

excluded categories I am using a plugin – but only to exclude fro,m the homepae thats all.

nothing in error log.

interesting. i installed feed on multiple sites and only the domains that start with the letter ‘d’ are getting that error above. not sure if the is coincedence or not – but odd for sure.

are your sites on a windows server?

please try adding the following in wp-config.php just before /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ on a new line:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M');

I notice the Google News feed https://dogs.net/sitemap-news.xml is working fine so I suppose it is still a memory limit problem. How many posts do you have on that site?