Title: [Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] XML Generation error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] XML Generation error

 *  [captain1202](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captain1202/)
 * (@captain1202)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-xml-generation-error/)
 * Any ideas why I would be getting this error when checking the XML file?
 * XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
    Location: 
   [http://thevillageshealthsource.com/sitemap_index.xml](http://thevillageshealthsource.com/sitemap_index.xml)
   Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><?xml-stylesheet
   type=”text/xsl” href=”[http://thevillageshealthsource.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/xml-sitemap-xsl.php&#8221](http://thevillageshealthsource.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/xml-sitemap-xsl.php&#8221);?
   > ^
 * Thx.
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## Tags

 * [errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/errors/)
 * [sitemap](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sitemap/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)

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 * Last reply from: [captain1202](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captain1202/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-xml-generation-error/)
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