Sitemaps and relative URLs

[Ellio]

I have question to put the experts:

When using sitemap software the urls collected via the spider include the full URL:

http://www.example.com/folder/index.html

However if most links point to:

http://www.example.com/folder/

Is it sensible to manually change sitemap to:

http://www.example.com/folder/ to match the frequently used version of the URL?

Many thanks.

[edited by: engine at 2:35 pm (utc) on Mar. 2, 2006]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

[trinorthlighting]

I would make sure that they match up. I had the same question and made sure all my links were the absolute url index.html in the subdirectories. Just makes it easier for the spiders to index and you also eliminate a duplicate penalaty

[tedster]

That's a good catch, Ellio -- a possible new source of trouble. Yes, I definitely would use the exact same url in every place, including the xml sitemap.