Don't output anything if no nodes available [#851712]

Google news has skipped a few of the articles that were supposed to be in the news sitemap. Unfortunately the articles are now too old to be included in the sitemap.

Google webmaster tools is reporting this error

Sitemap errors and warnings
Line Status Details
1 Missing XML tag This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.

Parent tag: urlset
Tag: url
Problem detected on: Jul 12, 2010

Any ideas? It has been working fine up until a week ago.

Comments

Comment #1

rabihs commented 13 April 2011 at 13:59

Did you find the reason for that, I'm facing this problem on my site.
Thanks

I too am having this problem. xmlsitemap is working fine, but googlenews is not.
Funny though, googlenews.xml was working fine yesterday when I submitted it with Google Webmaster Tools.
I have a strange feeling that I botched this sitemap stuff by using Google Webmaster Tools.
Anybody shed some light?
I will go through the documentation again and post my findings.

Comment #3

ephman commented 19 July 2011 at 15:00

having the same issue... any thoughts?

thanks,
ephman

Comment #4

bmarti44 commented 23 April 2012 at 20:29

I'm thinking it's because we currently do not have any content that was created in the last two days. . . Maybe when there is nothing to put in the sitemap, this error is thrown?