The RSS binding example shows how to use the RSS bindings to poll RSS feeds for updates. RSS is an XML format designed for sharing web content between sites.

A hypothetical business scenario, which uses RSS, is a web site constantly polling RSS feeds for its "What's New" section. Whenever rssPoller detects a change in one of the RSS feeds, rssPoller will send an updated list of URLs to displayNewSites. The displayNewSites component will then auomatically update the web site's "What's New" section accordingly.

The following diagram illustrates this:

News Feed Monitoring System

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