- From: Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:53:07 -0700
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Cc: semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>
I do this often I hadn't realized it wasn't legal However, I can't say it is a big deal, but does seem to be in the spirit of n-triples. Moreover the RDF Core spec http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#comment and their test cases http://www.w3.org/2000/10/rdf-tests/rdfcore/datatypes/test001.nt permit it Jeremy J Carroll Principal Architect Syapse, Inc. On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:44 AM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: > What would others think of modifying the n-triples grammar[1] to allow comment lines like the following? > > # This is a comment line > <http://example/foo> <http://example/bar> <http://example/baz> . > > At present, comments are not allowed in n-triples, though they are allowed in Turtle and SPARQL. I certainly don't want to make n-triples overly complicated, but a comment on a line by itself would be very easy to strip out when parsing, and it is very helpful to be able to have comments in a document, for the benefit of a human reader. A comment at the beginning is often used to indicate the purpose of the document, the authorship, copyright, license info, etc. Including such information directly in the file makes it is easy to find. > > To some extent this can be done already, because if a comment is added to an n-triples document, the document would still be valid Turtle (because every n-triples document is valid Turtle) even it it is no longer valid n-triples. Still, I'm wondering if this might be a beneficial change to n-triples. > > What do others think? > > David > > 1. N-triples grammar: > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-turtle/n-triples.html#n-triples-grammar >
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