Hello,

I'm getting the following error once my sitemap has been generated. It's at the site www.menuanalyser.co.uk if you want to have a look at anything that may help you figure why. I get the following error message: 

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://www.menuanalyser.co.uk/sitemap.xsl
Line Number 1, Column 3:  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
--^

I thought it may be an issue with the sitemap not being generated, but it appears as though it has with the following info:

URL Last updatedsort descending Links Pages Operations
http://www.menuanalyser.co.uk/sitemap.xml Oct 11 2011 - 5:13pm 12 1

Any advice really gratefully received. My bosses are hammering me to submit to Google and I want to have a working sitemap to do this.

I have tried previous versions of XML sitemap too with the same error message coming up.

Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Category: bug » support

You have a module enabled that is adding spaces before the <?php script tag which has shifted the output in the browser two spaces. The module scripts <?php script tag must begin on line one column one and must not contain an ending ?> tag otherwise these issues will happen.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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markduce commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

earnie, that was exactly the problem.

Thank you so very much, I've been tearing my hair out over that.

I definitely owe you a beer

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.