Re: [TTL] Long literals

IMHO, it should be the same as SPARQL (though I have no clear idea of what that is).

One of the usecases for having a common syntax is that you can cut-n-paste Turtle text into a SPARQL query and it will match, but not if one has normalisation rules, and one doesn't.

- Steve

On 2011-03-31, at 10:12, Andy Seaborne wrote:

> What is the newline process in long literals?
> 
> """
> abc
> def
> """
> 
> '''
> abc
> def
> '''
> 
> which of CR(\r) NL(\n), CR, NL is it?
> 
> XML behaves as if it's 
 i.e. NL (also know as LF).
> 
> As \r escapes apply,
> 
> """\r
> abc\r
> def\r
> """
> 
> would be the CR NL version.
> 
> It's hard to write the NL form if the default is CR NL.
> 
> So NL newlines seems appropriate. It just needs stating though.
> 
> (It can be achieved for a CR NL systems line MS-Windows by simply striping out any raw CR in the input stream anywhere in the input as the NL will achieve the same effect.)
> 
> 	Andy
> 

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