Methods and apparatus for arbitrarily extendible information aggregation
and display. This functionality is achieved by abstracting the components of the
system into individual modules which communicate using a platform-independent,
extendible markup language such as extensible markup language (XML). A designer
adds support for new information sources or client devices by abstracting and encapsulating
messages to and from the information source or client device in a wrapper using
a platform-independent, extendible markup language such as XML.
