Hi Shannon,

You probably just forgot to declare the news: prefix + namespace - something along the lines of:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
        version="1.0"
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
        
        xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"
        
        xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
        exclude-result-prefixes="umbraco.library"
>

        <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

        <xsl:param name="currentPage" />
        
        <xsl:template match="/">
                <urlset>
                        <xsl:for-each select="...">
                                <url>
                                        ...
                                        <news:news>
                                                ...
                                        </news:news>
                                        
                                </url>
                        </xsl:for-each>
                </urlset>
        </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

/Chriztian

That did it but now I have another issue. After including the name namespace, it's gets included in the <loc> location.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset  xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"> 
  <url xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
<loc>http://umbraco/news/2009/3/29/gm-chief-rick-wagoner-stepping-down</loc>
<news:news>
<news:publication>
<news:name>Njection</news:name>
<news:language>en</news:language>
</news:publication>
<news:publication_date>2011-02-11T19:50:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title></news:title>
<news:keywords>Lifestyle, Automotive, Technology, </news:keywords>
</news:news>
</url>
<url xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">

oops.. I ment in the <url>

OK, actually it shouldn't be a problem but try to remove the "news" prefix from the "exclude-result-prefixes" attribute then... then the processor should just include the namespace on the element and not repeat it anywhere else. (Edit: I've removed it from the sample code now, so that works).

/Chriztian

Thanks. I forgot to "include" it in the "exclude-result-prefixes" Works like a dream

Odd. Now the xmlns:news moved from the <loc> section to the <news:news> section

Hi Shannon,

Namespace display issues has everything to do about scopes - but the main thing you should know is this: The XML will work just fine (unless the parser reading it is seriously badly implemented).

If you like, post the full XSLT file here, and I can tell you what's going on...

Very short explanation - these 2 snippets are exactly the same to an XML parser:

<!-- Version 1 -->
<urlset xmlns="http://defaultnamespace.com">
    <url>
        <news:news xmlns:news="http://news-namespace.com">...</news:news>
    </url>
</urlset>

<!-- Version 2 -->
<urlset xmlns="http://defaultnamespace.com" xmlns:news="http://news-namespace.com">
    <url>
        <news:news>...</news:news>
    </url>
</urlset>

- It doesn't matter where the namespace and its prefix gets defined, as long as it's in scope when used.

/Chriztian

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets"
  xmlns:umbraco.contour="urn:umbraco.contour"

  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml news umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets umbraco.contour ">

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

  <xsl:variable name="urlPrefix">
    <xsl:text>http://</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:RequestServerVariables('HTTP_HOST')" />
  </xsl:variable>

  <!-- update this variable on how deep your site map should be -->
  <xsl:variable name="maxLevelForSitemap" select="100"/>
    <xsl:variable name="today" select="umbraco.library:CurrentDate()" />
    <xsl:variable name="later" select="umbraco.library:DateAdd($today, 'd', -20)" />

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <!-- change the mimetype for the current page to xml -->
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ChangeContentType('text/xml')"/>

    <xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">
      <xsl:with-param name="parent" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(1187)"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="drawNodes">
    <xsl:param name="parent"/>
    <xsl:if test="$parent/ancestor-or-self::*//BlogPost [@isDoc and umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqual(PostDate, $later)]">
      <xsl:for-each select="$parent/ancestor-or-self::* [@isDoc]/Blog [@isDoc]//BlogPost">       

        <!-- If the document does not have a template, nothing is shown in the frontend anyway.
        So this is not proper content and should not be in the sitemap -->
        <xsl:if test="@template &gt; 0">
          <url>
            <loc>
              <xsl:value-of select="$urlPrefix" /><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)" />
            </loc>
            <news:news>              
              <news:publication>
                <news:name>Njection</news:name>
                <news:language>en</news:language>
              </news:publication>
              <news:publication_date><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(@updateDate, 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+00:00')" /></news:publication_date>
              <news:title><xsl:value-of select="pageTitle"/></news:title>
              <news:keywords>Lifestyle, Automotive, Technology, <xsl:value-of select="metaKeywords"/></news:keywords>
            </news:news>            
          </url>
        </xsl:if>

        <xsl:if test="(count(./* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1' and @level &lt;= $maxLevelForSitemap]) &gt; 0) or (count(./node [string(./data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and @level &lt;= $maxLevelForSitemap]) &gt; 0)">
          <xsl:call-template name="drawNodes">
            <xsl:with-param name="parent" select="."/>
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>

      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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