How do you add custom files to the sitemap? XML files get ignored by default

[nickjj]

Hi,

I noticed that XML files are being ignored by default which means RSS feeds aren't being added to the sitemap.xml file that gets generated.

The documentation only mentions how to exclude paths.

How would you add custom files to be added to the generated sitemap?

The use case is I went to submit my podcast to Google Podcasts and they said my feed wasn't crawled by Google. So then I checked Google Webmaster Tools and yep, it wasn't crawled. Then I checked the sitemap generated by this plugin and my feed URLs weren't included. They are xml files located in various paths of my project.

I didn't dive too deep in the source but it seems that you don't include xml files in this variable: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-sitemap/blob/master/lib/jekyll/jekyll-sitemap.rb#L19

Is there a reason behind that?

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[nickjj]

Any thoughts on this subject before I fork the project?

[mattr-]

Not including XML files seems like an oversight on our part. If you'd like to fork the project and submit a pull request, that would be awesome.

[nickjj]

Done. Thanks!