Just got a reply from my host: It looks like the web service being used was returning an XML document with a newline before the XML declaration (i.e. <?xml ... ?>). This is actually not allowed by the XML specification and it causes an error in the browser. So you should recheck your c...

I think this problem is caused by web server configuration, because it adds spaces to the beginning of each page, no matter whether it is SItemap or other pages. Would be anything I can change on my web server config configuration? Is it fixable and is it worth contacting my host? I confused becuas...

Thanks for the suggestion. I just re-uploaded the files making sure I was in binary mode. Didn't fix it. Any other ideas?

Hi, sorry about the delay in my response. URL of sitemaps: http://www.cfbsupplies.co.uk/cfb-sitemaps.php http://www.cfbsupplies.co.uk/cfb-sitemaps.php?showMap=Index http://www.cfbsupplies.co.uk/cfb-sitemaps.php?showMap=Newproducts http://www.cfbsupplies.co.uk/cfb-sitemaps.php?showMap=Products http:/...

In my google webmaster tools in google I get the following warning: Leading whitespace We've detected that your Sitemap file begins with whitespace. We've accepted the file, but you may want to remove the whitespace so that the file adheres to the XML standard How do I remove the white space? Also i...