28.2 RSS and Atom Feeds
RSS and Atom are two competing formats for feeds. A feed is simply a list of items typically updated and sorted by date. In many ways, the work we will be doing is similar to using the ListView if the generic class-based view (GCBV) didn’t use a template but still output XML that was fully compliant with feed formats.
One of the neat things is that Django supports multiple formats but allows us to only implement a single class for use for both kinds of feeds. To that end, however, we start by extending our model to make the code in the feed a little bit cleaner. We add two methods on Post to format fields in the model, as shown in Example 28.1.
Example 28.1: Project Code
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