[RESOLVED] Re: Collection / Grammar Issue

This resolution works for me.  Thanks.

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:
> * Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> [2013-05-15 16:41-0700]
>> 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
>
> There was a discussion around this, but there were look-ahead
> problems.
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013May/thread#msg43>
> In the end, we just modified the example to have a predicate and
> object following the outer collection:
> [[
> Example 24
>
> @prefix : <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/> .
> (1 [:p :q] ( 2 ) ) :p2 :q2 .
> ]]
>
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>
>> BTW, it would be a wonderful editorial change to number the examples.
>
> Done -- tx.
>
>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-turtle-20130219/
>>
>> --
>> --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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-- 
--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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