Re: N-Triples VS RDF/XML bNode identifiers

Jan Grant wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, pat hayes wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, OK, but guys, he has a point. Why not just tweak Ntriples to
>>allow all of ASCII? That wouldn't break any of our stuff and it would
>>be generally good-citizen-ish.
> 
> 
> I believe that the (tacit) motivation is to maintain some level of
> compatibility with N3, where (in particular) "-" is a reserved
> character.

I was sure there was a reason and was waiting for it to appear.  I 
expect a response, probably from Dave, along the lines of:

- lunch ain't free - because RDF/XML is not restricted to US ascii, but 
permits international characters, an implementation must do some 
processing to translate RDF/XML bnode ID's to b-triples bnode IDs

- the n-triple b-node id's are designed to be compatible with N3 as some 
implementations use N3 processors

should put this one to bed.

Brian