What to change
The inventory's website domain must come from an approved production setting, not whichever environment happened to build it. Ask for a simple check listing every distinct website domain in the output before release. A preview build is a useful challenge case because it reveals whether temporary settings leak into publication files. The final evidence should confirm the correct origin for all entries, including newly added nested resources.
A worked example
Illustrative example
Illustrative test: Build using a preview environment and inspect the resulting sitemap before release. Include a newly added guide in the sample because older entries may use a different configuration source. A preview build may accidentally produce a sitemap whose entries all use the temporary preview domain. The supplier's release check lists distinct domains and flags the mismatch before publication. Your team confirms the intended live domain and reviews a newly added deep guide after correction. This shows that a valid-looking inventory can still be wrong in substance and that the check covers new content as well as older entries.
What this means for your practice
A sitemap can be correctly formatted yet describe the wrong website. If a build picks up its preview address, search engines may be directed to unfinished copies instead of the public guides. Ask your supplier to show every website domain present in the generated inventory before publication. The practice should confirm the approved live domain and any deliberate exceptions. Include a newly added nested guide in the sample, since old entries may come from a different source. Testing a preview build is useful precisely because it challenges whether temporary settings can leak into public files. The release check should flag that mismatch before the inventory is submitted or published.
How to check the result
Every submitted URL belongs to the intended production origin.
A mistake to avoid
A valid XML document can still describe the wrong website.
Turn reading into a next step
Your action checklist
Work through these checks with your team or supplier. Tick the ones you have resolved and leave unknowns open.
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Further reading
These sources provide background for the topic. The practice examples and checklist are illustrative planning suggestions from Kay & Co.
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