Re: TriG being disjoint from Turtle

On 18 May 2013, at 18:18, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

> 
> On 17 May 2013, at 13:38, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/17/2013 06:00 AM, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> I completely agree. If we can have Trig be an extension of Turtle, then we
> are just one step from N3. Having this would be very useful to be
> able to quote graphs and do simple things that Atom allows one to do such
> as having a graph expressing the content of other resources.
> 
> eg:
> 
> So instead of having to write something like
> 
> <> rdf:member [ owl:sameAs <member> ;
>       :title "An Order for a sanwich" ;
>       :updated "2013-05-13..."^^xsd:dateTime;
>       :content """
>                @base ...
>                @prefix ...
> 
>                <> :title "An Order for a Sandwich";
>                       :primaryTopic <#x>
>               <#x> a TunaSandwich
>               ....
>             """^^lang:Turtle
>     ] .
> 
> One could write:
> 
> <> rdf:member [ owl:sameAs <member> ;
>        :title "An Order for a sandwich" ;
>        :updated "2013-05-13..."^^xsd:dateTime;
>        :content {
>          <member> :title "An Order for a Sandwich";
>                   :primaryTopic [ a TunaSandwich ] ....
> 
>         } 
>      ] .

Sorry that was N3. I am not sure what the Trig way to do that would be.
But I don't think the = sign is the right solution. That should be
reserved for owl:sameAs as it is in N3.

In N3 graphs can be unnamed so the :content relation above
I think there is better expressed with log:semantics.

This seems better

<Eric/ericP-foaf.rdf> log:semantics {
  @base <http://www.w3.org/People/Eric/> .
  @prefix ericFoaf: <ericP-foaf.rdf#> .
  ericFoaf:ericP :givenName "Eric" ;
                 :knows <http://norman.walsh.name/knows/who/dan-brickley> ,
                        [ :mbox <mailto:timbl@w3.org> ] ,
                        <http://getopenid.com/amyvdh> .
}


going on what is here:
http://www.w3.org/2010/01/Turtle/Trig




> 
> One needs this if one is going to be able to for example GRDDL something
> as simple as an Atom Syntax document that contains RDF.
> 
>> 
> 
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