sitemap-extended.xsd

This XML schema can be used to validate sitemaps. Besides the default sitemap elements it supports xhtml (hreflang), image, video and news elements.

Sources

Prefix	Namespace	Schema Location
	http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9	https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd
xhtml	http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml	https://www.w3.org/2002/08/xhtml/xhtml1-strict.xsd
image	http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1	https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1/sitemap-image.xsd
news	http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9	https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9/sitemap-news.xsd
video	http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1	https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1/sitemap-video.xsd

Use case

I lately used the Apache NiFi ValidateXml Processor and was only able to specify a file path or a URL to an XML schema file to validate sitemaps. Since I could not find a ready-to-use solution I created this simple repository.

❗ This schema does not validate if the sitemap.xml actually defines the necessary namespaces in the <urlset> tag

❗ This schema should not be referenced in the sitemap.xml itself only use it for validation!