Doug:

When I went to the following web site I did not get any xml data. I got some
Perl code and apparently directory browsing is enabled. It could be that the
site is under going maintenance

http://www.xmltoday.com/examples/stockquote/getxmlquote.vep?s=ba+lmt+ibm+int
+amd+mmm

Even the sites homepage is down.

As a result of the site being down the Perl code was available for browsing.
So I took a look at the code. I came away with one central point. This site
just reformats yahoo finance stock quote code from cvs to xml.

The crucial url is 

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&s=
tickersymbol+tickersymbol

Long of the short is You can use the Import with GetURL function which uses
J/Link to retrieve stream from web via http. Or you can use the following
trick

getYahooData[ticker_] := Module[ {data, s, result},
data = ImportString["<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><!DOCTYPE data
[<!ENTITY text SYSTEM
'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&s=" <>
ToString[ticker] <> "'><!ELEMENT data (#PCDATA)>]><data>&text;</data>",
"XML", ConversionOptions -> {"NormalizeWhitespace" -> False}];
	s = StringToStream[First[Cases[data, XMLElement["data",{}, ___],
Infinity]][[3]][[1]]];
	result = ReadList[s,  Word, RecordSeparators -> {"\n"}, RecordLists
-> True, WordSeparators -> ","];
    Close[s];
    TableForm[result]
    ];

getYahooData["msft+ibm"]

As long as the cvs file does not contain the five unescaped SGML/XML
entities {&,<,>,',",} well in this case {"} comes through.

I output the result in table form but you can keep it as a list. Then use
traditional Mathematica code to process and graph.

Follows the following field format
symbol ask qdate qtime change open dayhigh daylow volume

good luck

Hans Michel

Thanks to both you guys...it turns out the mathematica people noticed the
error and supposedly fixed it...
I just got an email yesterday, but haven't had time yet to look at it

Doug
"Michel, Hans J.I." <HMiche@LSUHSC.EDU> wrote in message
news:cbe8ht$rl6$1@smc.vnet.net...
> Doug:
>
> When I went to the following web site I did not get any xml data. I got
some
> Perl code and apparently directory browsing is enabled. It could be that
the
> site is under going maintenance
>
>
http://www.xmltoday.com/examples/stockquote/getxmlquote.vep?s=ba+lmt+ibm+int
> +amd+mmm
>
> Even the sites homepage is down.
>
> As a result of the site being down the Perl code was available for
browsing.
> So I took a look at the code. I came away with one central point. This
site
> just reformats yahoo finance stock quote code from cvs to xml.
>
> The crucial url is
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&s=
> tickersymbol+tickersymbol
>
> Long of the short is You can use the Import with GetURL function which
uses
> J/Link to retrieve stream from web via http. Or you can use the following
> trick
>
> getYahooData[ticker_] := Module[ {data, s, result},
> data = ImportString["<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><!DOCTYPE data
> [<!ENTITY text SYSTEM
> 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&s=" <>
> ToString[ticker] <> "'><!ELEMENT data (#PCDATA)>]><data>&text;</data>",
> "XML", ConversionOptions -> {"NormalizeWhitespace" -> False}];
> s = StringToStream[First[Cases[data, XMLElement["data",{}, ___],
> Infinity]][[3]][[1]]];
> result = ReadList[s,  Word, RecordSeparators -> {"\n"}, RecordLists
> -> True, WordSeparators -> ","];
>     Close[s];
>     TableForm[result]
>     ];
>
> getYahooData["msft+ibm"]
>
> As long as the cvs file does not contain the five unescaped SGML/XML
> entities {&,<,>,',",} well in this case {"} comes through.
>
> I output the result in table form but you can keep it as a list. Then use
> traditional Mathematica code to process and graph.
>
> Follows the following field format
> symbol ask qdate qtime change open dayhigh daylow volume
>
> good luck
>
> Hans Michel
>