Re: DOCBOOK: Standard for stock symbols/quotes?

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>]

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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