[OK?] Re: Relaxing qnames in SPARQL queries to allow leading digits after the colon

Hi Alan,

The working group decided ( 
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/01-dawg-minutes#item03 ) to adopt a change that 
allows leading digits in the local parts of SPARQL prefixed names. You can 
see the grammar change in the editors' draft at 
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/rq25.html . Note that due to 
schedule concerns and the very late stage at which this change was 
introduced, the Working Group has decided to mark this change as an 
at-risk feature of SPARQL. (See 
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#cfi for more 
information on features at risk.)

The group has declined to take on a new dependency on CURIEs at this point 
in our schedule. 

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thanks,
Lee

Alan Ruttenberg wrote on 04/21/2007 03:58:49 PM:

> 
> I would point out that a reasonable candidate for abbreviations in 
> SPARQL, which was not present the last time the matter was considered 
> are CURIEs, http://www.w3.org/TR/curie/.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> On Apr 21, 2007, at 1:20 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> 
> > qnames that I would like to have (because I deal with lots of 
> > numeric identifiers) for example:  pubmed:9822577
> >
> > There are a lot of XML parsers out their, so fixing this for XML 
> > seems like a lost cause. However, I can't see any reason why SPARQL 
> > can't relax the rules.
> > There are no ambiguities that I can identify and hardly any 
> > installed base, so no backward compatibility issues.
> >
> > In fact TURTLE already relaxes the rules compared to XML (just not 
> > enough), and SPARQL tightens them a little, so there is precedent 
> > for mucking around.
> >
> > Just to be clear, I'm only concerned about SPARQL input, not what 
> > it generates if it can or at some time will be able to generate 
> > turtle.
> >
> > I am aware that the issue has been raised before, at least by 
> > Jeremy Carroll, however I can't find any record of a technical 
> > reason why this isn't possible - rather the response is along the 
> > lines of "the WG must have thought about it since they thought of 
> > so many other things and they made a final decision knowing that 
> > there were limitations"
> >
> > Would it be too much to ask for the actual technical reason why 
> > this is not possible? And if no such reason surfaces to reconsider 
> > the issue?
> >
> > The limitation is quite annoying, but that would be tolerable if 
> > there was a good reason for it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:27:28 UTC