BASIC XML PROBLEM

[tugalsan]

I want to add my map to google as below. but sth is wrong and it gives error as below. pls help

FILE:

http://groupmesa.com/map.xml

ERROR on internet explorer as well as on google bot:
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location:

http://groupmesa.com/map.xml

Line Number 4, Column 63: <loc>

http://www.groupmesa.com/web/common.asp?lng=tr&page=main</loc>

--------------------------------------------------------------^

FILE CONTENT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="

http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

<url>
<loc>

http://www.groupmesa.com/web/common.asp?lng=tr&page=main</loc>

<lastmod>2010-09-24</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
.
.
.
<url>
<loc>

http://www.groupmesa.com/web/common.asp?lng=en&page=properties&pageNo=317</loc>

<lastmod>2010-09-24</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>

 

[tsuji]

[0] Due to the artifact of the site rendering of href-like string, the loc tag content is not actually properly escape in the sample xml. The ampersand is actually not escaped as &amp; in the map.xml. This is erroneous and consequently the xml is not well-formed.

[1] The way to amend the xml document is to make every loc tag containing CDATA section, like this as an illustration.
[tt]
<loc>[red]<![CDATA[[/red][ignore]

http://www.groupmesa.com/web/common.asp?lng=en&page=properties&pageNo=317

[/ignore][red]]]>[/red]</loc>
[/tt]

 

[tugalsan]

I did learn that CDATA thing in my university years; but never tought of using it in bussinesslife.

Thanks tsuji. You are a life saver.