- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:17:35 -0500 (EST)
- To: public-owl-wg@w3.org
I wanted to wait until I had a chance to look at the SPARQL spec, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/ before approving the resolution of ISSUE-14. The relevant part of the SPARQL spec appears to be Section 4.1.1. I read this normative section fully, and came up with the following conclusions: 1/ The syntax for IRI_REF does not match the syntax for IRI references. 2/ The abbreviated syntax for IRIs does not match CURIES, nor anything else that I can tell, and will not generate all IRIs. However, this section, although it is marked as normative, is not complete. (I seem to remember a comment by me on this before - very bad document design - LET'S NOT DO THIS!) To get a complete answer one has to go to Appendix A, where deficiency 1 is alleviated. However, I believe that deficiency 2 not alleviated. I'm not sure what the motivation was for slightly expanding on QNames in the abbreviated IRI syntax, but not going all the way to CURIES. Does anyone know? I don't view it as an acceptable solution - if we are going to generalize QNames, then we should go all the way to CURIES. peter
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