Re: Fixing error in Turtle and Trig grammars

On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:

> The RDF Working Group recently discovered an error in the grammars for
> Turtle and TriG. They were intened to align with SPARQL, but a pair of
> parentheses was accidentally dropped from the definition for long
> strings resulting in an over-constraint on what's permitted after
> embedded quotes. An example of the error is shown by the text
> 
>   """ ""\" """
> 
> which is allowed by the SPARQL grammar, but was accidentally
> disallowed by the grammars for Turtle and TriG in their specifications.
> After considering this matter, the acting W3C Director has asked us to
> make sure implementors agree this is an error and will in the coming
> weeks make sure their implementations parse the intended language,
> aligned with SPARQL.
> 
> Please let us know by 18 Feb if you intend to implement the following
> grammar and parse the syntax tests below:
> 
> change
> [24] STRING_LITERAL_LONG_SINGLE_QUOTE ::= "'''" (("'" | "''")? [^'\] | ECHAR | UCHAR)* "'''"
> [25] STRING_LITERAL_LONG_QUOTE          ::= '"""' (('"' | '""')? [^"\] | ECHAR | UCHAR)* '"""'
> to
> [24] STRING_LITERAL_LONG_SINGLE_QUOTE ::= "'''" (("'" | "''")? ([^'\] | ECHAR | UCHAR))* "'''"
> [25] STRING_LITERAL_LONG_QUOTE          ::= '"""' (('"' | '""')? ([^"\] | ECHAR | UCHAR))* '"""'
> 
> and parse these (one-line) turtle documents (with some arbitrary base URI):
> 
> <s> <p> ''' ''\' ''' .
> 
> <s> <p> """ ""\" """ .
> 
> <s> <p> """ ""\u0061 """ .
> 
> <s> <p> """""\"""" .
> 
> <s> <p> """""\u0061""" .
> 
> 
> Many thanks for your help and continued support of RDF 1.1.

The Ruby Turlle and TriG parsers [1] [2] correctly handle all of these cases already.

Gregg

[1] http://rubygems.org/gems/rdf-turtle
[2] http://rubygems.org/gems/rdf-trig

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Received on Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:19:19 UTC