Static Sitemap.xml Django

Question

I'm new to Django and I'm trying to add a basic sitemap.xml. I only have static pages. How do I add a simple sitemap.xml so that I can access it from http://mydomain.com/sitemap.xml

urls.py
pages 
  --- templates
        ---- pages
                -- about.html
                -- contact.html
                -- etc...
  --- views.py

In my urls.py file:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView
from [myfolder].pages.views
from django.contrib import admin
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$',        TemplateView.as_view(template_name='pages/home.html'), name='home'),
    url(r'^about/$',     TemplateView.as_view(template_name='about.html')),
    url(r'^sitemap\.xml/$',     TemplateView.as_view(template_name='sitemap.xml')),????
)

How can I generate a sitemap based off the pages I have in templates/pages??

Answer 1

An alternative to the previous answers is to do a similar thing to adding the robots.txt file to your urls.py file.

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = patterns('', 
    url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='sitemap.xml', content_type='text/xml')),
)

The only difference is to change the content_type value to text/xml where it would be text/plain for the robots.txt file