- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard.cyganiak@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:15:22 +0100
- To: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Cc: Stan Devitt <stan.devitt@agfa.com>, public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 08:23 -0400, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote: > > Given that "." has a very sensitive and specific punctuation role in the > > "n3 family" of grammars we should > > strive for " XML like" rather than 100% compliance. I suggest that > > reasonable here is to allow "." inside tokens, > > but not at the end. +1. I've been recently bitten by that issue, and wasted half an hour chasing what I thought was a bug somewhere in my data or my query engine. The space before the "." should be optional everywhere, or required everywhere. > The downside of _not_ allowing "a." is that it will be impossible to > query RDF data in this form: > > <rdf:Description> > <foo:bar.>value<foo:bar.> > </rdf:Description> Expand the QName? Just my $0.02. Or rather: Just my $0.02 . Richard
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