The generated site map does not have xml tag

[hiphop101]

The generated XML does not have xml tag. Google search console does not recognize it.

is missing

[NicoPennec]

Hi @hiphop101

Please give more details to reproduce your issue.

[hiphop101]

Hi Nico,

if you notice that the sitemap generated does not have

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

[NicoPennec]

without details about your config and the nuxt mode (spa? generate?) I cannot reproduce...

Please at least share your nuxt version, your sitemap module version and your nuxt config.

[hiphop101]

Sure.
here are my package.json
should all be latest as I created this project last weekend.

"scripts": {
"dev": "nuxt",
"build": "nuxt build",
"start": "nuxt start",
"generate": "nuxt generate",
"lint:js": "eslint --ext .js,.vue --ignore-path .gitignore .",
"lint": "yarn lint:js"
},
"dependencies": {
"@nuxt/content": "^1.3.2",
"@nuxtjs/axios": "^5.11.0",
"@nuxtjs/sitemap": "^2.3.2",
"apexcharts": "^3.19.2",
"d3": "^5.16.0",
"nuxt": "^2.13.0",
"nuxt-buefy": "^0.3.31"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@nuxtjs/eslint-config": "^3.0.0",
"@nuxtjs/eslint-module": "^2.0.0",
"@nuxtjs/google-analytics": "^2.3.0",
"babel-eslint": "^10.1.0",
"eslint": "^7.2.0",
"eslint-config-prettier": "^6.11.0",
"eslint-plugin-nuxt": "^1.0.0",
"eslint-plugin-prettier": "^3.1.4",
"prettier": "^2.0.5"
}

[NicoPennec]

I need your sitemap config from your nuxt.config.js file

[hiphop101]

here it is:

sitemap: { hostname: 'my website URL', gzip: true, path: '/sitemap.xml', xmlNs: 'xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"' }

[NicoPennec]

Your config seems good on sitemap part. Maybe the sitemap is not well declare in "modules" part. Maybe you call a wrong URL according other nuxt config (eg. with a base url). Create a github repository to share a use case that reproduce your issue.

Without all details to reproduce your issue, I will not help your any more more. Sorry.

[urbgimtam]

I've also got bitten by this bug today.

For what I understand, it only happens when the sitemap is using i18n or when you're injecting a links object for each route.
Because this will generate the tag <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="xx" href="https://example.com/xx" />

When the xhtml:link tag is generated, the resulting sitemap ends up missing the xml version tag
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

The output becomes this:

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/pt</loc>
    <lastmod>2022-06-07T17:11:37.986Z</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="https://example.com/pt" />
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/en</loc>
    <lastmod>2022-06-07T17:11:37.986Z</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="https://example.com/pt" />
  </url>
</urlset>

when it should have been like this:

<?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" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/pt</loc>
    <lastmod>2022-06-07T17:11:37.986Z</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="https://example.com/pt" />
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/en</loc>
    <lastmod>2022-06-07T17:11:37.986Z</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="https://example.com/pt" />
  </url>
</urlset>

After a bit of digging, it seems the bug comes from the sitemap.js library itself.
At least, its what this issue makes me think.

If possible, please reopen the issue.