Re: SPARQL 1.1 Protocol: Format of fault messages

On 4 Oct 2010, at 00:47, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
>>> Clients don't necessarily have a JSON or Turtle parser on board,
>>> and while especially JSON parsers are easy to get by these days,
>>> and are just a few K of code, demanding one just for error
>>> messages would be a bit strange IMO.
>>
>> Indeed... but I'd say a JSON parser is less of a burden on a client
>> than an XML parser, which is less of one than an RDFa parser.
>
> So we have to decide whether there are or will be sufficiently more
> intermediaries with JSON and without an XML parser than end clients
> with XML parsers to warrant involving an extra language.

There can be no justification for requiring a separate parser just for  
error reporting.

Best,
Richard

Received on Monday, 4 October 2010 12:00:01 UTC