How to add link rel alternate in sitemap tag urlset ?

[lutskboy]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <url> <loc>https://www.example.com/english/page.html</loc> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="https://www.example.de/deutsch/page.html"/> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-ch" href="https://www.example.de/schweiz-deutsch/page.html"/> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://www.example.com/english/page.html"/> </url>

see https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/international/localized-versions?hl=ru#sitemap

[melbahja]

Hey,

you can use alternate method, see this for example:

https://github.com/melbahja/seo/blob/22b0b3273bf9c8867cadf018e4daa3e426525929/tests/SitemapsTest.php#L186

[lutskboy]

Thanks