Should I use a specific format to create my News sitemap?

[glimbeek]

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"We encourage using the Sitemap protocol to create a News sitemap, because it allows webmasters to provide additional information about pages on their sites. In addition, a sitemap based on this protocol can be used by all the major search engines, as the protocol is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License."

Can this be done with the generator tool?

[glimbeek]

Hate to bump my own post, but I would really like an answer from the dev team.

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

currently this is not supported.

[glimbeek]

Thank you for the reply.

It's a shame this isn't supported.

[glimbeek]

Found this "old" post: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/forum/index.php/topic,2977.0.html

What's the ETA on this?

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

We don't have ETA at this time, sorry.

[glimbeek]

Is there an update on this?