Example of an aggregator

• Meerkat Open News Wire service (http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/ ) is a very comprehensive aggregator with a lot of features like filtering by topics, time or keywords, and it can provide an automatic behavior .

Some other links

• A tutorial : http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/
• A primer : http://www.eevl.ac.uk/rss_primer/
• An interesting (though quite old article) : "Making Headlines with RSS Using Rich Site Summaries To Draw New Visitors" : http://www.newarchitectmag.com/archives/2000/02/eisenzopf/

Here are some UML diagrams showing structure and behavior in RSS

-- VincentLamareille - 08 Dec 2004