How to write the URL of Sitemap - Redirection OK?

sitemap, html sitemap, layout of sitemap

[sweetu]

Dear Community,
Wish you all a very Happy New Year.

My New Year has started with some issues. Just want to know if I create a sitemap for my website and use redirection for making my sitemap URL friendly for example www.example.com/france/sitemap.html to avoid long URL...will this be considered as search engine friendly.
hope to receive answers soon.
luv & cheers
sweetu

[edited by: tedster at 5:21 pm (utc) on Jan. 22, 2008]
[edit reason] switch to example.com [/edit]

[tedster]

Sounds fine to me. As long as the rewrite is technically correct, there should be no problem with a rewritten url for an html sitemap. It's making sure that your rewrite schema is solid that can be make or break for the entire website.