Re: Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language doc 2007-11-20 update

Why not generalize qualified names to CURIES in Turtle?

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research


From: Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>
Subject: Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language doc 2007-11-20 update
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:04:26 +0000

> 
> Last week I made another update to Turtle, this time
> a major document reorganisation.  There's a new syntax intro
> section 2 and I tidied the grammar to remove commentary and
> the required use of whitespace in most cases.  Other sections
> have been removed or merged.
> 
> One thing I was thinking about, comparing with SPARQL
> is the difference in quoting for literals.  SPARQL allows
> 'foo' and '''foo''' as well as "foo" and """foo"" but
> Turtle only uses double quotes.  I need more information
> on whether to add this, does this causes N3/cwm problems?
> 
> The other SPARQL issue to consider is the allowed
> characters in prefixed names.  SPARQL has slightly
> different rules that allow numbers and '.'s in different
> places.
> 
> See
>   Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language 20 November 2007
>   http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/
> 
> All changes:
>   http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/#sec-changelog
> 
> Dave
> 
>