: Why do sitemaps generated by different plugins look so different from each other? This is my first time generating a sitemap. I used two plugins to compare sitemaps. Yoast generated a normal

@Alves908

The dashes in front of the <urlset and <url> does not look right and should throw an error. As well, while the xsi: may be correct, I cannot tell you that Google will recognize it.

You can find out what Google says about sitemaps here: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en
The Yoast sitemap is likely correct and I would trust it. Yoast has a very fine reputation. I would not trust the sitemap in your example. But there is one way to be sure.

You can test your sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools > Crawl > Sitemaps > Add/Test Sitemap.

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