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Google search console fails to fetch sitemaps | "Sitemap could not be read" – SEO

I have generated a sitemap from online generators, it seems to be working and even i tested it on old google search console sitemap testor and it works. but when i submit it in both versions it just displays error message.

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    Your sitemap domain address might have changed. If it is wordpress use yoast plugin, where search console will automatically consider sitemap.xml

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    In my case, it’s the sitemap that had a syntax error.
    You should open sitemaps in Firefox, it will tell you if you have a syntax error.

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    I had this issue and it was because I didn’t set the content-type to application/xml

    This sitemap validator notified me of the issue: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html

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    I had the same problem and the solution was very simple, just put the full path to your sitemap.

    Where the console asks ‘add new sitemap’, instead of writing /sitemap.xml, write the full path, such as https://example.com/sitemap.xml.

    That should fix the problem.

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    Using the yoast SEO plugin which built out 10 sitemaps, the index got red the first time and only one of the sub-sitemaps did. I manually visited the other sitemaps (likely they took to long to respond I thought) and deleted the sitemap on google search console and re-uploaded. All were read that time.

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    Enter the full URL of your sitemap, e.g., https://example.com/sitemap.xml. Also, ensure your sitemap name does not include numbers and symbols.

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