How should a sitemap be displayed for a multilingual site?

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Kate2019-10-16 11:10:55

Search Engine Optimization

Kate, 2019-10-16 11:10:55

Hello!
I am creating a map via gulp-sitemap for a site with multiple languages.
Everything looks pretty good in the editor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <url>
        <loc>https://site.com/agreement.html</loc>
        <lastmod>2019-10-16T07:59:27.430Z</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://site.com/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru-ru" href="https://site.com/ru/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="be-by" href="https://site.com/by/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="https://site.com/us/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="https://site.com/ru/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://site.com/us/agreement.html" />
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://site.com/by/agreement.html</loc>
        <lastmod>2019-10-16T07:59:27.430Z</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://site.com/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru-ru" href="https://site.com/ru/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="be-by" href="https://site.com/by/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="https://site.com/us/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="https://site.com/ru/agreement.html" />
        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://site.com/us/agreement.html" />
    </url>
</urlset>

But in the browser it is displayed in one line . It

does not give errors in search engine analytics. And if you remove the xhtml tags, then everything falls into place and all the markup is beautifully displayed in the browser. Maybe the problem is in these tags? And maybe it's normal that everything fits in one line? Who faced similar?

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99sun66, 2019-10-16
@99sun66

This is fine. Look in another browser. It should display fine in chrome.