Re: SPARQL grammar... in BNF? N3?

On Feb 8, 2006, at 13:26, Dan Connolly wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:12 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:40, Dan Connolly wrote:
>>
>>> Yosi, Tim, Eric,
>>>
>>> The SPARQL parser in cwm... it seems to be built from EricP's
>>> BNF...
>>>
>>>
>>> |    if web:
>>> |        File = urllib.urlopen('http://www.w3.org/2005/01/yacker/
>>> uploads/sparqlTest/bnf')
>>>  -- http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/sparql/sparql-grammar.py
>>>
>>> In the DAWG, the editors added a .jj version of the grammar
>>> and are considering what other formats to publish.
>>>   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/parsers/sparql.jj
>>>   <- http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/parsers/
>>>   <- http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/#sparqlGrammar
>>>
>>> Is BNF the one we want/need?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, please.  This has been a long-standing informal request.
>
> I'm surprised.
>
> To be clear: you do _not_ want n3/turtle?

On the contrary, yes, I would like it in RDF, using the same
context-free grammar ontology please, but any syntax out of RDF/XML or
any subset of N3.

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:23:53 UTC