Merge pull request #1098 from zsiciarz/ticket-16829

.. _URLconf: ../url_dispatch/

Sitemap for static views

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Often you want the search engine crawlers to index views which are neither

object detail pages nor flatpages. The solution is to explicitly list URL

names for these views in ``items`` and call

:func:`~django.core.urlresolvers.reverse` in the ``location`` method of

the sitemap. For example::

    # sitemaps.py

    from django.contrib import sitemaps

    from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

    class StaticViewSitemap(sitemaps.Sitemap):

        priority = 0.5

        changefreq = 'daily'

        def items(self):

            return ['main', 'about', 'license']

        def location(self, item):

            return reverse(item)

    # urls.py

    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url

    from .sitemaps import StaticViewSitemap

    sitemaps = {

        'static': StaticViewSitemap,

    }

    urlpatterns = patterns('',

        url(r'^$', 'views.main', name='main'),

        url(r'^about/$', 'views.about', name='about'),

        url(r'^license/$', 'views.license', name='license'),

        # ...

        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps})

    )

Creating a sitemap index

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