Title: XML validation error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# XML validation error

 *  Resolved [Otto Kekäläinen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ottok/)
 * (@ottok)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-validation-error-1/)
 * In the version 1.4.7 of WordPress SEO by Yoast the generated sitemap XML has 
   one extra line break at the beginning, thus making the generated XML invalid 
   XML.
 *     ```
       This page contains the following errors:
       error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
       Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
       ```
   
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 *  Thread Starter [Otto Kekäläinen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ottok/)
 * (@ottok)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-validation-error-1/#post-3683665)
 * Sorry, this was an false report. The issue was caused by another plugin.

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