Its currently not possible to create a complete google-news-sitemap with this tool. Tags like "title" or "publication" are important and missing.

I noticed this problem as well when I was looking at the javadoc. This is more than just a bug since you cannot even create a valid news sitemap as the previous poster said. This means the classes related to google news sitemaps are useless as is. Please address this because you cannot say that your tool supports this type of sitemap when it actually does not.

This does appear to be a real problem. Unfortunately, I don't use News Sitemaps, so I may not be able to fix this in a timely manner. Patches welcome.

OK I have created a patch to fix this. What is the process to submit the patch?

I have attached a zip file containing the code.

Here is a quick list of the changes:

Added classes: Acess - enum class for valid access values in the google news sitemap Genre - enum class for valid genre values in the google news sitemap

Changes classes: GoogleNewsSitemapUrl - add new fields for new tags, with getter methods and setters in the Options class GoogleNewsSitemapGenerator - changed rendered to render new tags GoogleNewsSitemapUrl - added new test "testFullOptions" to test all new tags

Note: the changes should not affect the behaviour of any existing code that uses these classes in any way

Thanks for posting this. I think that these new additions to Google's algorithm will make online the XML sitemap generator tools even more important.

Any chance the patch will be accepted?

I noticed that this issue is still not resolved and the patch has not been accepted. The News Sitemap is unusable without it, any chance this can still be accepted?

Could you please open a pull request with the fix at https://github.com/dfabulich/sitemapgen4j ?