- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 22:45:42 +0100
- To: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
(Sorry if this issue is moot by now) On 4 May 2011, at 14:27, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote: >> # 8 Escape Processing >> Proposal: Adopt Turtle style / Change SPARQL. >> >> \u escapes can only appear in strings and IRIs > > Richard +1'd this on the basis that allowing \u in local names would > confused users. Other reasons are actually more important: 1. Currently, \u in local names is not allowed in Turtle or N3 2. You can always fall back on full IRIs if you really need to escape something > I'm not convinced and suspect that the RDB2RDF WG > would want to give their users a way to algorithmically write > shorthand like: > > @prefix : <http://foo.example/DB/People/> . > # triples for …People/ID=8 : > :ID\u003d8 :fname "Bob" ; :lname "Smith" . Personally I prefer </DB/People/ID/8> or id:8 over :ID\u003d8, but maybe I'm just weird. The way I see it, \uXXXX in prefixed names is not strictly necessary and doesn't add anything compelling. Best, Richard
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