Why doesn't sitemap.xml use a style file?

The plugin is coded to not include the xsl file for mobile sitemaps. I’m not sure why I made this decision. I’ll have to look into this.

Thanks. I hope you restore it–it looks better when it is styled.

Some more food for thought…I’ve installed this plugin on three sites.

About the styling–I discovered that on the first two sites I had checked the box to generate a mobile sitemap without reading the text next to that. With that box checked, I got the unstyled document tree. On the third site, I read the text and saw that it would check to see if the plugin is installed on a mobile-only site. I thought it would just check that condition and do something for mobile sites, but I didn’t think it would shut off styling for non-mobile sites. I left that unchecked and got a more styled file as seen in https://accessible-techcomm.org/sitemap.xml.

I went back to the first two sites and unchecked the box to generate a mobile sitemap. (I also modified the .xsl file to my liking and that worked.)

The sitemap.xml file generated for the first two sites includes full links (using your xsl file and also using my version). See https://blog.baeecorp.org/sitemap.xml

But in the third site the domain part of the links is not included–only on the first link. Google Webmaster Tools doesn’t recognize these as valid links and gave me 350 errors it said I should fix. See
https://accessible-techcomm.org/sitemap.xml. Do you have any idea why this sitemap doesn’t include the domain?

(I don’t think the theme would be the cause of this but the first two sites are using the Photocrati theme. My third site is using a Blaskan Child theme.)

In the https://accessible-techcomm.org/wp-content/plugins/xml-sitemaps/xml-sitemaps.xsl can you remove the newline/blank lines before and after <!– ….. –>? The blog.baeecorp xsl doesn’t have them. Let’s see if that makes a difference.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>

<!–
Copyright (c) 2009 Mesoconcepts <https://www.mesoconcepts.com&gt;
GNU/GPL licensed
–>

<xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″

Yes–that helped.

But that did not help for a different site I tried it on. The full path up to the file name is being truncated. See https://stc-access.org/sitemap.xml

Not fully sure. The path to the xsl file is created using the standard WordPress plugin_dir_url function call. May some WP bug given your domain name? hmmmmmm

Looks like you’re using a different plugin for the site. I am closing this out.