- From: Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 09:18:04 +0100
- To: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 15:33 04/04/2003 +0200, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > On this one, I don't see any harm in having parsers transpose lang > > tags to lowercase and NTriples only having lowercase lang tags. > > >I do not like NTriples being changed in this way, that seems to make things >worse from the point of view of tex's comment. I note that the role of (RDF/XML) parsers is to create an abstract syntax graph from RDF/XML input, not N-triples. I think *requiring* parsers to case-normalize is over-specification, and I think the case-agnostic view for the abstract syntax proposed by Jeremy is about right. [**] But adopting a convention for N-triples, which is a concrete representation of an abstract syntax graph, that case-insensitive values are presented as lower case seems to address the other concerns I have heard. #g -- [**] Note: this doesn't mean that parsers MUST NOT case-normalize where appropriate: that is an implementation decision. ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org> PGP: 0FAA 69FF C083 000B A2E9 A131 01B9 1C7A DBCA CB5E
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