- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:20:23 -0400
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
qnames that I would like to have (because I deal with lots of numeric identifiers) for example: pubmed:9822577 There are a lot of XML parsers out their, so fixing this for XML seems like a lost cause. However, I can't see any reason why SPARQL can't relax the rules. There are no ambiguities that I can identify and hardly any installed base, so no backward compatibility issues. In fact TURTLE already relaxes the rules compared to XML (just not enough), and SPARQL tightens them a little, so there is precedent for mucking around. Just to be clear, I'm only concerned about SPARQL input, not what it generates if it can or at some time will be able to generate turtle. I am aware that the issue has been raised before, at least by Jeremy Carroll, however I can't find any record of a technical reason why this isn't possible - rather the response is along the lines of "the WG must have thought about it since they thought of so many other things and they made a final decision knowing that there were limitations" Would it be too much to ask for the actual technical reason why this is not possible? And if no such reason surfaces to reconsider the issue? The limitation is quite annoying, but that would be tolerable if there was a good reason for it. Thanks, Alan
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