I posted this in the Google Groups ( http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/fc88c493b16623f/28bfe98a7b4f98c5 ) list but didn't get a response so I thought I'd create a ticket for it since it does seem like a bug to me.
Following the djangoproject.com Sitemap example ( source:djangoproject.com/django_website/urls.py ) and the documentation on Sitemaps ( http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/sitemaps/ ) I'm trying to implement a caching Sitemap Index that will link out to other Sitemaps for my site (one for each main model basically). I had the Sitemap Index working with the separate sitemaps just fine until I decided I wanted to add caching in my urls.py (I am using the djangoproject.com urls.py as an example.)
Here's some snippets...
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib.sitemaps import views as sitemap_views
from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')),
(r'^sitemap.xml$', cache_page(sitemap_views.index, 60 * 60 * 24), {'sitemaps': my_sitemaps}),
(r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+).xml$', cache_page(sitemap_views.sitemap, 60 * 60 * 24), {'sitemaps': my_sitemaps}),
)
my_sitemaps is a dictionary of my sitemaps (built following the example in the Sitemap documentation). With this code I can access the individual sitemaps without trouble, but can't access the main sitemap.xml file (that's when I get the "NoReverseMatch at /sitemap.xml"
exception). However, the following code worked for all files:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')),
(r'^sitemap.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.index', {'sitemaps': my_sitemaps}),
(r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+).xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': my_sitemaps}),
)
But I can't implement the cache using this method because you can't pass the string 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.index' as the first parameter of cache_page since it's expecting a callable.
