External URLs in hreflang sitemap questions

[Guyboz]

I'm currently putting together an international sitemap for a website that has an set up like the following:

example.com/us
example.com/au
example.com/ca
example.co.uk
example.se

I'm planning on including the hreflang tags within sitemaps for each domain, to make sure google serves up the right version. However, I'm a bit sceptical about including the non .com domains within the .com sitemap - and the other way round for .co.uk and .se sitemaps.

The way I've been doing it follows the following example:

 <url><loc>http://www.example.com/us/</loc></url> 

Putting in the .co.uk and .se domains within the .com sitemap just doesn't feel right - is this actually the right way to do it?

Thanks in advance

[OlegKorneitchouk]

It is the right way to do it

According to this, looks like you should include the <loc>url as well, so add:</loc>