My "front" page is example.com/index.html (content type "basic page")
When the XML sitemap is generated, it shows links to both:
example.com/
example.com/index.html
Both of these are the same page (which means in my sitemap I have listed the same page has two different URL's, I have created duplicate content).
By default, my "basic page" content type is set to "include" in the XML sitemap.
For page "index.html" I have overwritten this setting and set it to "exclude." (I have checked this setting repeatedly.)
As mentioned above, despite this setting the page is still included in the sitemap.
Thanks for any help.