XML Sitemap works fine in GWT, but does not show in SERP

[khi5]

XML Sitemap works properly in GWT, but when I run a search in Google for "site:example.com/sitemap.xml" it does not show. However, my XML image sitemap show when I run the same search in Google. Is this potentially an issue on my end and is there a solution?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

I can't come up with a use case why you would want your XML sitemaps to show up in Google. As long as they're crawled it's fine, I don't think you want to have them indexed. Crawled != Indexed

[khi5]

thx. but my image XML sitemap shows. I am puzzled why 1 sitemap shows, the other does not….

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Could be coincidence, sometimes they index XML sitemaps.