Chapter 14. Generating Non-HTML Content
Usually when we talk about developing websites, 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:
Comma-delimited (CSV) files for importing into spreadsheet applications.
PDF files.
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, but first we'll cover the basic principles.
