Chapter 11. Generating Non-HTML Content
Usually when we talk about developing Web sites, we're talking about producing HTML. Of course, there's a lot more to the Web than HTML; we use the Web to distribute data in all sorts of formats: RSS, PDFs, images, and so forth.
So far we've focused on the common case of HTML production, but in this chapter we'll take a detour and look at using Django to produce other types of content.
Django has convenient built-in tools that you can use to produce some common non-HTML content:
RSS/Atom syndication feeds
Sitemaps (an XML format originally developed by Google that gives hints to search engines)
We'll examine each of those tools a little later on, but first we'll cover the basic principles.
The Basics: Views and ...
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