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A sitemap only helps discovery if search engines can actually parse it — a single malformed entry is often enough to get the entire file silently ignored rather than partially accepted.

• •A stray unescaped ampersand in a URL is one of the most common ways a sitemap silently breaks — & needs to be written as & inside XML.
• •A missing closing tag or a lastmod date in the wrong format can each cause the same silent failure — pasting the raw XML here and seeing it render as a clean table is a quick way to confirm the file is well-formed before submitting it in Search Console.