Render an xml to a view

Question

The scenario goes like this.

I get an atom file from a website (say A). A third party will be request this atom file through my website (say B).

I am writing a Django app which will frequently poll website A and store it as a file. Now, when a third party requests for the file through website B, I will have to display the file as xml in the browser.

My question is how do I render an entire xml file to a view in Django?

 render_to_response

expects a template. I can't use a template as such. I just need to display the file in the view. How do I do this?

Answer 1

Do something like the below:

return render(request, 'myapp/index.html', {"foo": "bar"}, content_type="application/xhtml+xml")

Answer 2

Just define the MIME type to 'text/xml' using the content_type argument.

return render(request, 'xmltemplate.xml', {'foo':'bar'}, content_type='text/xml')

In the xmltemplate.xml render the variables if you want.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<note>
    <foo>{{ foo }}</foo>
</note>