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XML namespace

Google image sitemap extension

Declares the images belonging to each <url> entry in a sitemap.

xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"

This extension nests <image:image> inside a sitemap's <url> element so a crawler can associate images with the page that hosts them, which is otherwise only discoverable by fetching and parsing the page.

It is a Google extension rather than part of the sitemaps protocol, so support outside Google varies.

URI
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1
Prefix
image
Elements
imageloctitlecaption

Specification: Google image sitemaps

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