title: Trying to Submit a Sitemap to Bing: What Does this Error Mean?
body: <p>Does Bing allow sitemaps with images?</p>
  
  <p>I'm tring to submit my sitemap to Bing. But, I got this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>We were unable to add your sitemap
    because: Http status code: 200
    Severity: Error Line: 1292 Position:
    12 Message: The
    'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9:loc'
    element is invalid - The value '' is
    invalid according to its datatype
    'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9:tLoc'
    - The actual length is less than the MinLength value. Severity: Error Line:
    1596 Position: 6 Message: The element
    'image' in namespace
    'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1'
    has invalid child element
    'geo_location' in namespace
    'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1'.
    List of possible elements expected:
    'license' in namespace
    'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1'.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What does this error mean?</p>
  
  <p>My sitemap.xml is in this format. I've cut it down to a one page example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" 
          xmlns:image="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"&gt;
  
    &lt;url&gt; 
      &lt;loc&gt;http://www.mysite.com/#&lt;/loc&gt; 
      &lt;lastmod&gt;2010-09-23&lt;/lastmod&gt;
      &lt;changefreq&gt;daily&lt;/changefreq&gt;
      &lt;priority&gt;1.0&lt;/priority&gt;
      &lt;image:image&gt;
         &lt;image:loc&gt;http://www.mysite.com/images/theplace.jpg&lt;/image:loc&gt;
         &lt;image:caption&gt;This is the place&lt;/image:caption&gt;
         &lt;image:geo_location&gt;Place, State&lt;/image:geo_location&gt; 
      &lt;/image:image&gt;
    &lt;/url&gt;
  &lt;/urlset&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>
  
  <p>-Laxmidi</p>