XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards.
Questions tagged [xml]
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Is a different sitemap per language OK? How do I tell Google about them?
The website is very, very large and I have created:
sitemap_fr.xml
sitemap_en.xml
sitemap_es.xml
Is this solution OK? If so, do I have to insert a tag to inform Google about the different sitemaps? I no longer just have sitemap.xml which it…
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Is incorrect to have the HTTPS version of the sitemaps.org URL in the xmlns sitemap schema?
I have the schema with this:
Is it correct or should be:
if all my web pages are on HTTPS?
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How does client side XML+XSLT affect SEO?
I have a site that is built completely in XML and is transformed by a single XSL file. How does this affect SEO? Is it possible to store page-specific metadata? Will robots see the transformed page (the result of the XSL stylesheet) or the plain…
Liam
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Linux HTML/XML W3C Validation Utilities
What programs can I use to validate HTML/XML markup?
Basically, I want a local, command-line based, version of W3C HTML validation service (like lint) that I can use for detecting errors.
Update
I would also accept a solution that uses the W3C web…
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Schema.org hierarchy as XML
I am intersted in using the Schema.org hierarchy to help users define "things" that they add to my custom CMS.
For example if they wanted to add a "person" to my CMS, they would have to add all the fields from Thing and Person.
I am looking for an…
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Is there a way to save MS Word document as HTML w/o the ms proprietary stuff?
So normally I wouldn't use this feature ("Save as Web Page") but I have large documents from clients they just want put on their site as HTML, and formatting it all by hand seems like a waste of time.
I have tried "save as webpage" in Word 2007, but…
Stop Slandering Monica Cellio
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Google Webmaster Tools says my XML sitemap "appears to be an HTML page"
We're running a lot of sites and we've started to get a lot of these errors in Webmaster Tools:
Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.
One of the problematic sitemaps:
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Sitemap XML version vs simple text (urls list) version, do you know what are the pros?
I usualy submit simple text urls list as sitemap on Google webmaster tools. It's just a matter of simplicity, a simple text file is lightweight, easier to read also for humans (actually for me). :)
What's the cath then in submitting an XML…
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HTML5 `html` `xmlns` attribute
Is xmlns appropriate in HTML5?
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Also, which is preferred, or ?
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What is the meaning of a link rel file-list in the HTML head?
I little while ago I saw a website with the HTML code:
The content of the file is:
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IIS XML encoding seems to be wrong
We are moving our web application from Apache 2.0 to IIS 7.
Everyhing is fine with UTF-8 encoding, but just one thing.
There's a flash movie in the page that reads an xml content (dynamically generated by php) which if served by Apache correctly…
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How to update an RSS Feed?
Let's say we have a similar RSS feed like here. Where should I be inserting the new content? And, should all the articles be listed in an RSS feed?
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Crawlers that generate sitemaps only find one page on my site despite being allowed to crawl by robots.txt
Having a real problem here, I've tried lots of services to sort this including http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ as well as software and a PHP script.
Basically my domain is http://gamingdeluxe.co.uk/
Whenever I run it through a sitemap generator it ONLY…
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Why is the sitemap validator returning an error for the "lastmod" tag?
The sitemap of my company's brand's website seems to be fine when I look at it at first glance. I don't particularly see any errors as such. However, SEMrush, the SEO tool, reports that our sitemap is not in the correct format. SEMrush doesn't tell…
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