renderSegments not generating sitemap.xml

I’m trying to generate sitemaps across different segments, but I’m not being successful with that.

Here is my hugo config:

baseURL = 'https://website.com/'
languageCode = 'pt-br'
title = 'Awesome Website'
googleAnalytics = 'G-MYGAID001'
defaultContentLanguage = 'pt'

enableRobotsTXT = true

[languages]
  [languages.pt]
    languageCode = 'pt-BR'
    languageDirection = 'ltr'
    languageName = 'Português'
    weight = 1

[sitemap]
  changeFreq = 'weekly'
  disable = false
  filename = 'sitemap.xml'
  priority = 0.5

[outputFormats.SITEMAP]
  MediaType = "application/xml"
  BaseName = "sitemap"
  IsHTML = false
  IsPlainText = true
  noUgly = true
  notAlternative = true
  Rel = "sitemap"

[outputs]
  home = ['html']
  page = ['html']
  rss = ['rss']
  section = ['html', 'rss', 'sitemap']
  taxonomy = ['html']
  term = ['html']

[segments]
  [segments.home]
    [[segments.home.includes]]
      kind = '{home,term,taxonomy,section}'
  
  [segments.posts]
    [[segments.posts.includes]]
      path = '{/posts/**}'

I build the website using the commands:

hugo build  --gc --templateMetrics --templateMetricsHints --logLevel=debug --minify --renderSegments home > hugo.home.log
hugo build  --gc --templateMetrics --templateMetricsHints --logLevel=debug --minify --renderSegments posts > hugo.posts.log
kind = '{home,term,taxonomy,section,sitemap}'

And what should I do in order to render the sitemap for every section? Since the sections have pages, sections and sitemap kinds?

Perhaps I misunderstood. A site map is a map of the site. But you want to place one within each section?

As the sitemap.xml hugo provides has all the pages, it doesnt serve the purpose for my 50k + pages website.

I need to split the sitemap into multiple sections sitemap.xml, in order to achieve it, I’ve created a file called section.sitemap.xml:

{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>" }}
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:base="{{site.BaseURL }}">
{{ $limit := default 50000 site.Params.sitemapMax }}
{{ range first $limit .CurrentSection.RegularPages }}
  {{ if .Permalink -}}
  <url>
    <loc>{{ .Permalink }}</loc>
    {{ with .Lastmod }}<lastmod>{{ . | time.Format "2006-01-02T00:00:00-03:00" }}</lastmod>{{ end }}
	  {{ with .Sitemap.ChangeFreq }}<changefreq>{{ . }}</changefreq>{{end}}
	  {{ with .Sitemap.Priority   }}<priority>{{ . }}</priority>{{end}}
  </url>
  {{ end }}
{{ end }}  
</urlset>

But it’s not being rendered

The output looks right to me.

git clone --single-branch -b hugo-forum-topic-54170 https://github.com/jmooring/hugo-testing hugo-forum-topic-54170
cd hugo-forum-topic-54170
rm -rf public/ && hugo --renderSegments home && tree public

Result:

public/
├── categories/
│   └── index.html
├── posts/
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── index.xml
│   └── sitemap.xml  <-- looks ok to me
├── tags/
│   └── index.html
├── favicon.ico
└── index.html

Then run:

rm -rf public/ && hugo --renderSegments posts && tree public

Result:

public/
├── posts/
│   ├── post-1/
│   │   └── index.html
│   ├── post-2/
│   │   └── index.html
│   └── post-3/
│       └── index.html
└── favicon.ico