Ok, I found the issue … Something weird has gone wrong copying the old items and sitemap formatting strings to the new configuration files ???
I deleted all formatting strings in my new config files (items and sitemap) and copied it from this post in the community to my files:
And suddenly it worked???
My string did look exactly the same but it did not display anything …
It seems that somehow rewriting the format string from scratch seem to have the problem solved ??? !!!