Validation of XML Sitemap urlset with xhtml:link inside url element

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I am trying to create a sitemap such as the below and I get this error:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <urlset
    xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" 
    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
    xhtml:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
        http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
     <url>
         <loc>http://www.something.com/something</loc>
         <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://www.something.com/something" />
     </url>
 </urlset>

Error:

http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"> ^ Error 1866: Element '{http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}urlset', attribute '{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}schemaLocation': The attribute '{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}schemaLocation' is not allowed. on line: 3

'{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}link': No matching global element declaration available, but demanded by the strict wildcard.

Please advice. Thank you.

xml-namespaces xhtml sitemap xml xsd
2 Answers

Old one - but still comes up when searching. Actually the issue is that you are using xhtml:link and then you need "other" urlsets...http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xhtml/xhtml1-strict.xsd

<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/TR/xhtml11/xhtml11_schema.html 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/TR/xhtml11/xhtml11_schema.html">

Reference: XML Sitemap rendering as plain text

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