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Re: some rq23 grammar comments

From: Seaborne, Andy <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:20:05 +0100
Message-ID: <4315BC95.5010300@hp.com>
To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
CC: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>



Dave Beckett wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:43 +0100, Dave Beckett wrote:
> 
>>Keywords
>>"Keywords are shown in upper case but are matched in a case-insensitive
>>manner."
>>except there are a few mixed listed: isURI isBLANK isLITERAL
> 
> 
> a further consequence: "true" and "false" are given in lower case and
> thus not matched case-independent.  Is that intended?  I'd say yes as
> it's the canonical form for xsd:boolean literals.  In that case, it
> might need mentioning near where the "a" keyword is listed as an
> exception.
> 
> Dave

Not intended - wording now as last reply.

I don't have a strong (if any) preference on TRUE and FALSE but not in SQL they 
are case-insensitive and programming constants (in some styles) are uppercase.

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	Andy
Received on Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:20:23 UTC

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