# Sitemap 0.9

Source: https://xmlvalid.com/schemas/sitemap-0.9

> The sitemap.xml format read by Google, Bing and other search engines.

A sitemap lists the pages of a site with optional last-modified dates. Search engines accept up to 50,000 URLs and 50 MB (uncompressed) per file.

- Type: XSD
- Version: 0.9
- Namespace: `http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9`
- Root element: `urlset`
- Publisher: sitemaps.org (CC BY-SA 2.5), source: https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
- Validate against it: https://xmlvalid.com/validate?schema=sitemap-0.9

## Notes

- The schema checks foreign elements strictly, so a sitemap that uses the image, video or news extensions is reported invalid here. Choose Sitemap with Google extensions for those.
- URL counts, file size limits and whether the URLs work are not checked.