I was telling Bijan that his n3 parser should output N-Triples, when we came across the problem that anonymous node names (_:qname) are a pain to generate uniquely. When you need one (eg for a [ ] construct), you can't just make one ("_:g57"), because the user might use the same identifier ("_:g57") later in the document. Our best solution is to say you generate illegal names ("_:57") during parsing, then at the end of the document, you rename those over to the first _:gXX that's not already taken. Painful, but correct. The more obvious approach of "reserving" names like _:_gXXX would violate the principle of N-Triples being a sub-language of n3, at least in spirit. Maybe you can finesse the definition of "reserve", and say that such names "may conflict with names generated internally if you go beyond N-Triples to other n3 features." Pretty ugly. Better solutions? -- sandroReceived on Friday, 30 November 2001 14:22:54 GMT
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