Google not accepting multiple URL parameters in sitemap url?

Question

I used to have multiple php pages e.g

news.php?id=10, reviews.php?id=10

google webmaster tools accepted this sitemap and would index it but i recoded the whole site to reduce the insane amount of php pages i had. now the url looks like this

viewpage.php?page-type=news&id=10.

This seems fine to me since I'm just using a switch but google doesn't seem to like it and wants me to delete the second variable before it will accept the sitemap but the page won't load if it doesn't have the 2 variables. How do i get around this so that i don't have to revert to the old way of having multiple pages?

i have read the terms on the website and it's giving out saying that I'm creating multiple urls to the same page but i clearly am not.

Is this `sitemap.xml`? If so, `&` should be encoded to `&` – dev-null-dweller Oct 02 '13 at 22:57 — dev-null-dweller, Oct 02 '13 at 22:57
thank you kind sir you have saved me a lot of frustration! – Dan Hastings Oct 02 '13 at 23:13 — Dan Hastings, Oct 02 '13 at 23:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '19 at 08:49

As with all XML files, any data values (including URLs) must use entity escape codes for the characters listed in the table below.

    Character            Escape Code
---------------------------------------------
    Ampersand       &     &amp;
    Single Quote    '     &apos;
    Double Quote    "     &quot;
    Greater Than    >     &gt;
    Less Than       <     &lt;

Google not accepting multiple URL parameters in sitemap url?

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