Re: Test turtle-syntax-bad-struct-07 - blank nodes in predicates

On May 18, 2013, at 9:49 PM, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> wrote:

> This test has the triple:
> 
>    <http://example/s> _:p <http://example/o> .
> 
> I can't see where in the turtle specification is says that you can't have a blank node as a predicate. 
> 
> It certainly makes sense to have this constraint.

Of course, the Turtle grammar doesn't allow it, but that's not normative. What is is the RDF data model as defined in RDF Concepts, in particular the definition of a triple [1].

Gregg

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-triples

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> inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
> considered."
> 
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