I'm trying to run a Python script to generate a Sitemap for my Googlepages website.

[Bevin Watson]

Hi Peter.  I don't know much about this, but it looks as if your file
isn't xml.  It is html.
You might like to list the contents of pewtas.googlepages.xml

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:27 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu Australian ppl,
> 
> 2008/7/27 Peter Williams <pewtas at gmail.com>
>         
>         Hi All,
>         
>         I'm trying to run a Python script to generate a Sitemap for my
>         Googlepages website.
>         
>         I'm attempting to follow the instruction on this html page:
>         
>         https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html#execute
>         
>         but I don't really know what I'm doing! 
>         
>         I have opened a Root Terminal and do a cd into the folder
>         containing the Python script generating code. I have also
>         edited the xml file and saved it as "pewtas_googlepages.xml". 
>         
>         Can someone please be kind enough to help me run the python
>         command which will (I think) generate a Sitemap for my
>         googlepages website.
>         
>         http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34654&topic=13452#rss
>         
>         https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html
>         
> 
> 
> root at user-desktop:/home/user# cd Sitemap_generator
> root at user-desktop:/home/user/Sitemap_generator# python sitemap_gen.py
> --config=http://pewtas.googlepages.xml
> Reading configuration file: http://pewtas.googlepages.xml
> [ERROR] Cannot read configuration file: http://pewtas.googlepages.xml
> Configuration file errors -- exiting.
> root at user-desktop:/home/user/Sitemap_generator# python sitemap_gen.py
> --config=http://pewtas.googlepages.com/pewtas.googlepages.xml
> Reading configuration file:
> http://pewtas.googlepages.com/pewtas.googlepages.xml
> [ERROR] Unrecognized tag in the configuration: html
> [ERROR] Unrecognized tag in the configuration: head
> [ERROR] Unrecognized tag in the configuration: meta
> [ERROR] Unrecognized tag in the configuration: style
> [ERROR] Unrecognized tag in the configuration: title
> [ERROR] XML error in the config file (line 11, column 48): mismatched
> tag
> Configuration file errors -- exiting.
> root at user-desktop:/home/user/Sitemap_generator# 
> 
> Can someone please help me, as I really want to generate a Sitemap for
> my website, however, I don't know how to program in Python... so I'm
> getting lost ;-(
> 
> -- 
> Fond Regards,
> Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
> from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
> 
> My free website is:
> http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or) http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs
> 
> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about
> it.)
>