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I’ve set all my website URLs to be displayed without any index.* references, through .HTAccess, so making my canonical definitions simpler. My question is, does the sitemap.xml definitions also need to lose the index.* references?
Ultimate aim is not to confuse Google…
You probably need to give some examples for us to make 100% sure we understand you correctly.
But yes, naturally your XML sitemap should reflect your real URLs 🙂
So if instead of somedir/index.html you now use somedir/ your XML sitemap should reflect that 🙂