def tagcloudxml(request): xml = cStringIO.StringIO() w = XMLWriter(xml) tags = w.start("tags") for tag in tagcloud(): w.element("a", text=tag['tag'], attrs={'href': "http://www.bhamtechevents.org/browse_events/%s".format(tag['tag']), 'title': "%s topics".format(tag["count"]), 'rel': "tag", 'style': "font-size: %s".format(tag["size"])} ) w.end() w.close(tags) w.flush() return HttpResponse(xml.read())