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I am trying to add language to my sitemap.xml file, but I get a "namespace prefix xhtml on link is not defined" error. How do I defined it? I cannot find anything useful on google.

Here is the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
      xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
            http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<!-- created with Free Online Sitemap Generator www.xml-sitemaps.com -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.leepio.dk/</loc>


</urlset>
crystyxn
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    I'm not too familiar with this stuff but Google's example here seems to be using a different set of namespace thingies: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en – Pekka Sep 12 '16 at 12:42
  • You managed to define the `xsi` and the `schemaLocation` prefixes… – Quentin Sep 12 '16 at 12:43

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This would do the work.

Change

<urlset
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd
    http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xhtml/xhtml1-strict.xsd"
    xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"   
>

Explanation

Define the xmlns:xhtml as given. Map the xmlns:xhtml to a place, where the schema is stored http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xhtml/xhtml1-strict.xsd.

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