Re: Oracle's stand regarding N-TRIPLES

One option could be to leave ntriples where it is and give the utf8 version
a new name and put it on the REC track. U-Triples? (Maybe go further to
U-Quads)
On 19 Aug 2011 10:18, "Steve Harris" <steve.harris@garlik.com> wrote:
> I agree with Jeremy.
>
> For us, the lack of UTF-8 support is a serious impediment to using
N-Triples as a bulk dump/restore format.
>
> We use UTF-8 internally to hold RDF literals, as every other format is
natively UTF-8, so the export to N-Triples requires a lot of unnecessary and
inefficient escaping.
>
> - Steve
>
> On 2011-08-18, at 23:26, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>
>> Hi Zhe
>>
>> I find this a surprisingly strong position.
>> When ingesting N-Triples the code path to read UTF-8 and the code path to
read \uXXXX escape sequences are probably equally horrible. The UTF-8 code
path is the more conventional one to be following on the Web.
>>
>> It seems like a fairly small amount of extra code for a vendor to
support, with negligible impact on performance. The only downside, that I
can see, would be that new data will not be readable by old software, which
is the normal downside with new versions of a format.
>>
>> We may differ in our judgment about how important that downside is, or I
may have missed some other disadvantage that motivates Oracle's strong
reaction.
>>
>> My understanding is that 2004 N-triples docs will be valid turtle docs
....
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/18/2011 9:05 AM, Zhe Wu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After discussing with the whole Oracle Database Semantic Technologies
team, we
>>> have the following consensus within Oracle.
>>>
>>> 1) The existing N-TRIPLES format [1] is key to Oracle's product;
>>> 2) Oracle hasn't received from Oracle's customers any change
request/suggestions regarding the current N-TRIPLES syntax;
>>> 3) As a platform vendor, Oracle does not see any significant
justifications to change/mend the existing syntax;
>>>
>>> Hence Oracle will not support any major changes to the existing N-TRIPLE
format, including
>>> support for UTF-8.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Zhe& Souri
>>>
>>> [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/#ntriples (In "RDF Test Cases: W3C
Recommendation 10 February 2004")
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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