Re: Turtle support for WebID profiles

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>wrote:

> >
> > Questions:
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> > 1. I do not see any issues off hand for moving Turtle forward. What is
> next?
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> could you ask on the LinkedData list, or find some way of getting people
> there to vote?  Well turtle support will get full support I believe,
> but the more difficult question is after that should one drop RDF/XML as a
> must
> support? Or should one have both? I don't find it difficult to do both.
>

We should leave RDF/XML as a MUST (on verifier side), even for all its
cons, most libs support it (I don't know of any RDF lib which support
Turtle but RDF/XML for example). If anything, we could simply remove the
ugly RDF/XML snippet from the spec.


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> > 2. The examples page in the wiki lists Turtle and N3 in one section
> > (for somewhat obvious reasons). Should the proposal include the two
> > together?)
>
> I like N3, but there are too few good parsers for it sadly (many that
> claim to be N3 parsers are not). I think it's time is still to come.
> And so I'd love to mention it, but more as an aside.
>

-1. I don't see what mentioning N3 would bring aside from confusion. N3's
subset Turtle is all we need (for the reasons Henry and I mentioned in
previous emails).

Steph.


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> > -Patrick
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> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
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Received on Friday, 23 December 2011 05:45:15 UTC