Re: tab2rdf.py doesn't generate Turtle

SIgh.  A random and unnecessary departure of turtle from N3 IMHO.

Changed the code anyway.  Almost 10 years on

Tim


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On 2010-08 -02, at 16:37, Jonathan Rees wrote:

> I'm trying to use http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/tab2n3.py
> and have discovered the hard way that it doesn't generate Turtle...
> not that it claims to, but I felt like complaining.
> 
> Apparently the Turtle grammar requires a predicate and object
> following each subject, and in the output of tab2n3 there are subjects
> with no predicate and object. E.g.
> 
> # headings found:  3 ['strain_id', 'strain_name', 'strain_type']
> [
>    :strain_id "MGI:2164743";
>    :strain_name "(C57BL/6JEiJ x C3Sn.BLiA-Pde6b<+>)F1";
>    :strain_type "Not Specified";
> ] .
> 
> Here's what the Turtle submission says:
> 
> [6]	triples	::=	subject predicateObjectList
> [7]	predicateObjectList	::=	verb objectList ( ';' verb objectList )* ( ';')?
> 
> To generate correct Turtle is possible but awkward. You could say
> tab2n3 is working as designed, and was never meant to generate Turtle,
> only N3, but... wouldn't it be nice?
> 
> Jonathan
> 

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