Can't get sitemap.xml file to work

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I use the R Studio > Blogdown > Github > Netlify chain to publish my website https://whatbank.ca

I am trying to add a sitemap.xml file by placing it in layouts/sitemap.xml

I saved the file with Save as Encoding > UTF-8

When I point Chrome to whatbank.ca/sitemap.xml I get the error: enter image description here

The rendering of the page is empty.

When I view the Page Source I see:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

   <url>

      <loc>https://whatbank.ca/</loc>

      <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>

      <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>

      <priority>0.8</priority>

   </url>

</urlset>

Yet the raw source on Github looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

   <url>

      <loc>https://whatbank.ca/</loc>

      <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>

      <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>

      <priority>0.8</priority>

   </url>

</urlset>

My thinking is that the 2nd line of whatbank.ca/sitemap.xml, &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> , is rendering the entire file invalid.

Why does the file get changed?
Is this the correct approach to add a custom sitemap.xml file?

2

Personally, I add the first line like this: {{- (printf "<?xml version = \"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>") | safeHTML -}}

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3

Strangely, it still doubles the first line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
4

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5

It works in my sample here

own sitemap templates!

check config / Output

[outputs]
home = [ “HTML”, “ATOM”, “JSON”, “FEED”, “MANIFEST”, “SITEMAP”]
section = [ “HTML”, “SITEMAP” ]

to activate sitemaps

Templates are in the theme dir under layouts/_default

You are free to copy it, it you like it :wink: