I've been trying to figure out why sitemap 1.12 won't work with Google sitemap for me. I noticed as well that it wasn't working for some others. Could it be someting to do with the utf-8 encoding? Not sure, just know I get parsing errors as mentioned
http://www.peak.ne.jp/xoops/md/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=44Thanks