G'day Steve,
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:36:51PM -0400, Steve D. Perkins wrote:
[snip]
> I stumbled across GnuCash in the process of researching a solution for my
> problem. If users can use GnuCash to track their investment holdings,
> then I am assuming GnuCash has the ability to automatically adjust
> positions based on splits (please correct me if it is the case that users
> must manually inform GnuCash about stock splits). I have spent the past
> couple of days pouring over the Perl source code in the Finance::Quote
> module used by GnuCash... but have had no success in finding the solution
> (the module seems to be completely dependant on the same Yahoo API used
> by my bean for domestic stocks).
If you're thinking that F::Q can't detect stock-splits, then you'd
be right, and if Yahoo have removed the tag which indicates that
then we might be both in the same boat.
Of course, Yahoo isn't the only source for quotes and information.
Try taking a look at:
http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=xml&mode=stock&symbol=SUNW
for a very nice chunk of market information in XML. There's a DTD
available at:
http://www.nasdaq-amex.com/reference/NasdaqAmexDotCom.dtd
Which makes mention of:
<!-- ***** SSK 18-Jan-01 Add Stock split element and attribute ***** -->
<!ELEMENT stock-split (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST stock-split effective-date CDATA #IMPLIED>
Which to me looks like it would be a good way of detecting stock-splits.
(Of course, you'd want to find a splitting/split stock to see the
element in action.)
Hope that this helps.
Cheers,
Paul
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