I see the number 50,000 referenced by Google and Schema.org as the limit for the number of URLs that a sitemap can contain, however, it is unclear to me if that means <loc> elements specifically, or if that also includes other types of URLs, such as<xhtml:link rel=alternate hreflang=de href=http://www.example.com/deutsch/ />Any one of my pages may have 25 of the above alternate URLs, so I want to understand if those count towards the total.
Are alternate links included in the 50,000 URL limit for sitemaps?
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