Question on Handling of Ill-formed Shapes Graphs

Hello all,

Section 3.4.2 [1] states that if a shapes graph is ill-formed, the SHACL processor SHOULD produce a failure. Why is that a SHOULD and not a MUST? Or put differently: In which cases would it be acceptable for a processor not to produce a failure when processing an ill-formed shapes graph?

[1] https://w3c.github.io/data-shapes/shacl/#ill-formed-shape-graphs


Thanks,

Lars

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