diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 360de1eb74..d18186c4c0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 tools/tagmaps/*.map
 tags/tagged-*.sources
 tags/tagged-*.en.xhtml
-news/generated_xml/*.xml
+*/generated_xml/*.xml
 d_day.en.xml
 d_month.en.xml
 d_year.en.xml