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Will Googlebot automatically try to index the sitemap.xml?

Will Googlebot automatically try to index the sitemap.xml file if the sitemap.xml file has not been submitted to Google? For example, will Googlebot try to index http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml if by chance the file exists?

The Google resource says to submit, but what the Googlebot is doing is a separate matter. http://support.google.com/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100283

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Sitemap file can have any name and path. As such, I don't think Google will search for it unless it's explicitly listed in the robots.txt file.



User-agent: *
Sitemap: sitemap.xml
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