- From: Jan Wielemaker <J.Wielemaker@vu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:11 +0200
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- CC: <public-rdf-comments@w3.org>
On 05/17/2013 11:49 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote:
[this fragment is from Charles Greer, not answered by Andy]
> 1. Could the spec be modified to allow TriG to be a superset of
> turtle? Specifically, could the production rules be modified to allow
> a set of triples outside of any '{' '}' to be the same as triples in a
> default anonymous graph? It seems that even now, the rules allow
> multiple anonymous graph productions, whose union would be the unnamed
> graph. It would be convenient if we could dispense with these anonymous
> curly braces altogether if possible.
Having implemented TriG yesterday on top of the Turtle parser, I must
say that I was happily surprised that TriG does not allow for triples
outside {}. This means you can detect whether a document is a Turtle
or TriG document at the first triple.
Cheers --- Jan
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