diff --git a/bin/werc.rc b/bin/werc.rc
index c5d64f2..a9a7e3e 100755
--- a/bin/werc.rc
+++ b/bin/werc.rc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ difs=$ifs # Used to restore default ifs when needed
 
 # Expected input: ls -F style, $sitedir/path/to/files/
 #          <ls -F+x><symlink hack><Useless?><hiden files  >
-dirfilter='s/\*$//; s,/+\./+,/,g; s,^\./,,; /\/[._][^\/]/d; /'$forbidden_uri_chars'/d; /\/index\.(md|html|txt|tpl)$/d; /\/(robots|sitemap)\.txt$/d; /_werc\/?$/d; '
+dirfilter='s/\*$//; s,/+\./+,/,g; s,^\./,,; /\/[._][^\/]/d; /'$forbidden_uri_chars'/d; /\/sitemap\.xml$/d; /\/index\.(md|html|txt|tpl)$/d; /\/(robots|sitemap)\.txt$/d; /_werc\/?$/d; '
 dirclean=' s/\.(md|html|txt)$//; '
 
 # Careful, the proper p9p path might not be set until initrc.local is sourced