- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:58:49 -0400
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
I would point out that a reasonable candidate for abbreviations in SPARQL, which was not present the last time the matter was considered are CURIEs, http://www.w3.org/TR/curie/. -Alan On Apr 21, 2007, at 1:20 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > 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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