# Sitemap.xml couldn't be fetched in Google Search Console

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sitemap-xml-couldnt-be-fetched-in-google-search-console/55387>\
**Category:** support\
**Tags:** sitemap\
**Created:** [July 21, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sitemap-xml-couldnt-be-fetched-in-google-search-console/55387 "2025-07-21T10:16:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![minsoehan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@minsoehan](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/minsoehan)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sitemap-xml-couldnt-be-fetched-in-google-search-console/55387/1 "2025-07-21T10:16:25Z")

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Hi everyone,  
I found the similar posts here but I still want to ask more.  
I added my sitemap, [https://minsoehan-msh.web.app/sitemap.xml](https://minsoehan-msh.web.app/sitemap.xml) to google search console. but the sitemap.xml is still couldn’t fetched. It has already been 3-4 days I waited. Some post online suggests that xml file’s format. the format google accepts is started with the line:

\<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?\>

but my xml file generated by Hugo is started with the line:

\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?\>

Is that possible case and if so, how should I do?  
Or, if not, why google can’t read my sitemap.xml file.  
I have checked the url many times and waited 3-4 days.

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**Author:** ![jhvanderschee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/jhvanderschee/32/18241_2.png) [@jhvanderschee](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jhvanderschee)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/sitemap-xml-couldnt-be-fetched-in-google-search-console/55387/2 "2025-07-21T11:10:26Z")

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It looks good to me. Not sure what goes wrong… The standalone attribute is not an issue (mine has it and gets read by Google Search Console).