<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  NO <priority>. Google has stated for years that it ignores the element entirely, and Bing does
  not use it either. This file carried it on all 3 URLs and <lastmod> on none — exactly backwards,
  since lastmod is the one hint crawlers actually consume.

  This note used to end "Matches the main sitemap, where the same change shipped on 2026-11-08".
  The static sitemap.xml still carried <priority> on all 16 URLs for weeks afterwards, so as a
  statement about the FILE it was wrong.

  As a statement about the SITE it was right, and I got that backwards too when I removed them:
  /production/BLOG_SITEMAP_MODE is `dynamic`, so authentara.com/sitemap.xml is generated by
  generateSitemapXml() — which already omitted <priority> — and the live response has carried 0 of
  them all along. The static file is the `file`-mode fallback.

  Both files are now guarded by server/tests/noSitemapCarriesPriority.test.js, which PARSES them:
  a prose claim is not a check, and `grep -c '<priority>'` on this very file returns 1 because of
  the word in this paragraph.

  <lastmod> is deliberately absent rather than invented: this is a hand-maintained static file for a
  one-page site, and a date here would be a guess. An inaccurate lastmod is worse than none — it
  teaches a crawler to distrust the file.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"
        xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">
  <url>
    <loc>https://pettroneswalve.com/</loc>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://authentara-new.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/website/pages/assets/aboutus/user_image.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>David A. Pettrone Swalve, keynote speaker on authentic leadership</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <!--
      No <video:video> block here on purpose. It previously advertised Authentara's
      certification sales video as David's "Keynote Speaker Reel" — the wrong asset,
      submitted to Google in a machine-readable feed. Restore this block ONLY when a
      real stage reel exists, and point content_loc at that file.
    -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pettroneswalve.com/terms</loc>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pettroneswalve.com/privacy-policy</loc>
  </url>
</urlset>
