{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>" | safeHTML }}
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
{{ $exclude := slice "tags" "categories" }}
{{ range .Pages }}
{{ if not (in $exclude .Data.Plural) }}
<url>
<loc>{{ .Permalink }}</loc>{{ if not .Lastmod.IsZero }}
<lastmod>{{ safeHTML ( .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" ) }}</lastmod>{{ end }}{{ with .Sitemap.ChangeFreq }}
<changefreq>{{ . }}</changefreq>{{ end }}{{ if ge .Sitemap.Priority 0.0 }}
<priority>{{ .Sitemap.Priority }}</priority>{{ end }}{{ if .IsTranslated }}{{ range .Translations }}
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{ .Language.Lang }}"
href="{{ .Permalink }}"
/>{{ end }}
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{ .Language.Lang }}"
href="{{ .Permalink }}"
/>{{ end }}
</url>
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
</urlset>
It would be cleaner to define the list of taxonomies to exclude in the site configuration file:
[params]
taxonomiesExcludedFromSitemap = ["tags", "categories"]
And then:
{{ if not (in .Site.Params.taxonomiesExcludedFromSitemap .Data.Plural) }}