Validation error with xml sitemap

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I have the following sitemap which I have put together mostly following the google guidelines, and even doing it exactly like google have it in the link below, it still creates a lot of validation errors, here is my sitemap:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/</loc>
    <priority>1.00</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es"/>
  </url>  
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/about/index</loc>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/about/index"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/about/clients</loc>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/about/clients"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/about/news</loc>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/about/news"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/about/group</loc>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/about/group"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/systems/index</loc>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/systems/index"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/systems/ecristal</loc>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/systems/ecristal"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/systems/cristalcheck</loc>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/systems/cristalcheck"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.cristalstandards.com/en/legal/index</loc>
    <priority>0.0</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es/legal/index"/>
  </url>
</urlset>

The first one is unique, but the ones below the first one is a multiple error

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.cristalstandards.com/es"/> ^ Error 1845: Element '{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}link': No matching global element declaration available, but demanded by the strict wildcard. on line: 12 column: 0 /> 

^ Error 1845: Element '{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}link': No matching global element declaration available, but demanded by the strict wildcard. on line: 21 column: 0 />

^ Error 1845: Element '{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}link': No matching global element declaration available, but demanded by the strict wildcard. on line: 30 column: 0

Then again though, I’ll run it through another validator called Yandex and it validates fine, so not sure if its an issue or not

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It may be valid as far as being well-formed. But it has a non-existing / unreachable page
http://www.cristalstandards.com/es

You should either remove that <url> block or make sure the alternate page exists and can be found.

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