Mastering Django: Core

The low-level framework

Behind the scenes, the high-level RSS framework uses a lower-level framework for generating feeds' XML. This framework lives in a single module: django/utils/feedgenerator.py. You use this framework on your own, for lower-level feed generation. You can also create custom feed generator subclasses for use with the feed_type Feed option.

SyndicationFeed classes

The feedgenerator module contains a base class:

• django.utils.feedgenerator.SyndicationFeed

and several subclasses:

• django.utils.feedgenerator.RssUserland091Feed
• django.utils.feedgenerator.Rss201rev2Feed
• django.utils.feedgenerator.Atom1Feed

Each of these three classes knows how to render a certain type of feed as XML. They share this interface:

SyndicationFeed.__init__()

Initialize ...