django syndication feed framework: adding CSS to RSS

Question

Adding CSS to RSS is quite simple as shown in here: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/208.cfm

Creating RSS is simple with django too as documented in here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/syndication/

How to combine these two? Or better, how to add CSS to RSS while using django provided feed framework?

I know that i could create my own RSS xml file but why I should do that if framework works just fine? I just need a way to link css, that I could use code highlight or something like that.

What are the best practices to provide pretty RSS in django?

ramiro ramiro · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-02T21:15:08

It is probably not worth the effort, considering this answer, but I found a way to do this, which is pretty ugly, but works regarding the XML output. The solution above didn't work in Django 1.5.

In my Feed class I overwrite the call method like so:

from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed

class MyFeed(Feed)

    def __call__(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        response = super(MyFeed, self).__call__(request, *args, **kwargs)

        # Add stylesheet, is it worth it?
        css = '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" ?>\n'
        start = '<rss xmlns:atom'
        response.content = response.content.replace(start, css + start)

        return response

django syndication feed framework: adding CSS to RSS

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