- From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:41:05 -0700
- To: public-rdf-comments@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CABp3FN+1vHREjpgeEW1MyoTPA-O+nVstWJWjkP+4Ee6s5BcixA@mail.gmail.com>
I ran across a problem while implementing a Turtle parser.
In section 3 of [1], the 7th example is:
@prefix : <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/> .
(1 [:p :q] ( 2 ) ) .
The production for triples in section 6.5 is:
[6] triples ::= subject predicateObjectList | blankNodePropertyList
predicateObjectList?
[7] predicateObjectList ::= verb objectList (';' (verb objectList)?)*
[10] subject ::= iri | BlankNode | collection
According to these productions, the example is invalid. The subject
reduces to the collection and must be followed by a verb. Yet, the example
does not have a following predicate object list.
If this is truly suppose to be valid, I think the productions need to be:
triples ::= subject predicateObjectList |
collection predicateObjectList? |
blankNodePropertyList predicateObjectList?
subject ::= iri | BlankNode
BTW, it would be a wonderful editorial change to number the examples.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-turtle-20130219/
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--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."
Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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