Fwd: Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language doc 2007-11-20 update

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From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
Date: 26 Nov 2007 09:21
Subject: Re: Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language doc 2007-11-20 update
To: dave@dajobe.org
Cc: semantic-web@w3.org



Why not generalize qualified names to CURIES in Turtle?

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research


From: Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>
Subject: Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language doc 2007-11-20 update
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:04:26 +0000

>
> Last week I made another update to Turtle, this time
> a major document reorganisation.  There's a new syntax intro
> section 2 and I tidied the grammar to remove commentary and
> the required use of whitespace in most cases.  Other sections
> have been removed or merged.
>
> One thing I was thinking about, comparing with SPARQL
> is the difference in quoting for literals.  SPARQL allows
> 'foo' and '''foo''' as well as "foo" and """foo"" but
> Turtle only uses double quotes.  I need more information
> on whether to add this, does this causes N3/cwm problems?
>
> The other SPARQL issue to consider is the allowed
> characters in prefixed names.  SPARQL has slightly
> different rules that allow numbers and '.'s in different
> places.
>
> See
>   Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language 20 November 2007
>   http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/
>
> All changes:
>   http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/#sec-changelog
>
> Dave
>
>

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