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RE: Stock Quotes

• From: "David Valera" <dvalera@p...>
• To: <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:59:42 +0200

> Hi,
>
> Is there any stock quotes provider on the web that provides
> the quotes in
> the form of XML. I have gone to a couple of sites that
> provide the stock
> quotes but they give out HTML.

It would be a good thing if a provider started to give stock quotes in XML
:-). I made an application for myself to retreive the information from a
stock quotes site.

What I do is first convert the HTML to XML using tidy.exe from W3C, and then
load the XML file and retreive the information I need. It works quite good.
You will have to find yourself a site that has it's stock information in
'good written' HTML, otherwise tidy.exe will not be able to convert it to
XML. You will also have a problem if the way the HTML file with the stock
information is written keeps changing from time to time, but that does not
happen often.

David Valera



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