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Re: Standard for stock symbols/quotes?
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Standard for stock symbols/quotes?
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:08:20 -0700
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At 23:57 9-10-2001, I wrote:
>At 10:06 9-10-2001, Barry Hoggard wrote:
>>Is there a standard for tagging stock symbols/quotes? They would typically
>>become a link to a web page's quote service.
>>
>>Should olink be used for that?
>
>Contrary to Bob Stayton's reply, I think so.
... and then I got somewhat incoherent. I forgot all about olink as I got
into it.
Simplest way: use ulink and no other markup.
Slightly better way: put the ticker inside an olink with a "ticker" role,
and turn it into an href on processing.
Best way: use markup indicating that this is a stock ticker symbol, and
make linking part of the semantics of that markup.
-Chris
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