Sitemap.xml is displayed as plain text in browser

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Hi guys,

I have a multilanguage website and the English version of the sitemap.xml is displayed as plain text in the browser and the links are not clickable. What do i need to change in my configuration to show the sitemap in the correct format?

Here is my default sitemap.xml.

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Good question, I don’t know. Your sitemap validates properly with Yandex’s sitemap validator and the content-type header is application/xml, which seems correct too.

Do you generate the sitemap in a special way? Perhaps a setting that can cause this?

(I looked on GitHub and found your HTML source, but not the Hugo project, so can’t say anything practical.)

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That is how the sitemap should look. It is a plain text XML list of URLs. Links are hypertext elements humans interact with. XML files are not for human reading.

Your sitemap is fine. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, @maiki. I guess I should not worry about it then.

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If you would like to style any XML you definitely can. It will not hurt how machines read it.