Re: discrepancy between SPARQL and Turtle

On May 12, 2026, at 9:02 AM, Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to you both.
> I was suspecting that this "discovery" of mine was actually old news for others :)
> 
> +1 to what Andy wrote and to "fix" SPARQL 1.2.

Agreed with what Andy and Thomas have said. I think such a change would be good for SPARQL, and that the original SPARQL escaping mechanism is problematic. However, I was under the impression that this would be too big a change to fit under the 1.2 charter, as it would be a breaking change to the syntax (both changing semantics of some queries, and making other formerly-acceptable queries invalid). I’d love to see this fixed, but think it probably needs to wait.

I agree with the suggestion to add a "note in the SPARQL spec pointing out that pitfall”.

.greg

Received on Tuesday, 12 May 2026 17:47:08 UTC