[me@aaronsw.com: Stock Quotes in RDF]

FYI, this is how one might do stock quotes in RDF/RDFS.

If you look at the definitions behind the quotes, ala;

http://notabug.com/2002/stock?t=

you might notice that there's not a lot of information there that
isn't available in an XML Schema definition (except the use of
rdf:type, rdfs:label, rdfs:Class).  The big win of RDF is when
you compare stock quotes to other things, permitting a no-new-code
means of doing things like integrating stock quotes into RSS and
building an RSS feed out of it (note to Aaron; how about doing
that?).  Using just XML schema doesn't give you this capability,
which is the basis of my concern that we be too focused on it; if
you restrict yourself to XML schema, you are explicitly making a
choice not to catpure lots of very useful information.

MB

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Since everyone uses the stock quote example for the canonical SOAP app, 
I figured RDF needed one too. I thought the DAML HTML scraper[1] would 
do the job but it only handles NYSE stocks for some reason. So I wrote 
my own in Python. Pick a stock, any stock:

http://notabug.com/2002/stock?s=AAPL
(replace "AAPL" with the stock you want)

Schema: http://notabug.com/2002/stock?t=
Source: http://notabug.com/2002/stock.py

It's a bit rushed and hacked up. Ideally it'd support Accept: headers 
and give back HTML, RDF/XML , etc. Comments appreciated.

[1] http://www.daml.org/2001/10/html/

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