Re: Proposed fixed version of N-Triples https://www.w3.org/TR/n-triples/ Section 7

Hi Richard, others,


> The N-Triples document defines two languages: “N-Triples” and “Canonical
> N-Triples”. The latter requires a single space between RDF terms and does
> not permit comments, and is reasonably well-suited to processing with
> line-based text tools. Producers are encouraged to produce Canonical
> N-Triples.


True, but for a data consumer it is not possible to determine whether a
document is formatted in canonical or in non-canonical N-Triples (except by
fully parsing the document).

Canonical and non-canonical N-Triples advertise the same Media Type in HTTP
Content-Type headers and have the same extension in file names.  It's nice
when data publishers use the canonical N-Triples format, but since the data
consumer cannot anticipate that this is actually the case, this does not
make the situation easier for her in practice.

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Wouter Beek.

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