To clarify, it's probably fine to keep the querystrings, I only brought it up because it was a problem in the past-- I'm not aware of any search engines that *currently* have issues. Making the sitemap urls match the current pattern is a non-goal, I merely brought it up on the off chance that it was an easy change. It might be easier to leave the index at /sitemap.xml do something like /sitemap.en-US.xml for the en-US version by putting in an optional locale regex match in the urlpattern and accepting a locale keyword arg in the view. I'm also fine with leaving it the way it is, I'll let you make the call.