RE: Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language updated

-------- Original Message --------
> From: Story Henry <>
> Date: 3 October 2007 11:56
> 
> On 3 Oct 2007, at 12:41, Michael Schneider wrote:
> 
> > Henry Story wrote:
> > 
> > > What about =
> > > 
> > > That would be a nice addition. :-)
> > > 
> > > Especially as it allows one to group statements together like
this:
> > > 
> > > > me foaf:knows [ = <http://eg.com/joe/>;
> > >                  foaf:name "Joe Smith" ] .
> > > 
> > 
> > Just for me to understand: Is this meant to be a shortcut for
> > 'owl:sameAs'?
> 
> Yep! It's that obvious :-)
> 
> What would be nice would be a little comment in the Turtle spec, if it
> gets approved, making the point that when the "=" follows the "[" as
> above there is no need for an interpreter to create a blank node: they
> should just go an name the node with the URL following it.   
> 
> Henry

It seems strange to build one entailment into the language and not
others.  Keep the synatx as syntax; have entailment done elsewhere.

In particular, structured editors might well not want any such procesing
done.

	Andy

> 
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Michael

Received on Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:05:26 UTC