- From: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:25:04 -0400
- To: Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name>
- Cc: RDF-WG WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
* Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name> [2012-03-18 07:25-0700] > Zhe has pointed out off list that the editors draft of N-Triples and > Turtle contain an escape sequence that non of the earlier versions of > Turtle (including the FPWD) or N-Triples did. > > In String Escapes > (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/f93f0e829e9a/rdf-turtle/index.html#sec-escapes) > there are two string escape sequences that are new to Turtle and > N-Triples. \b and \f. These are backspace (U+0008) and form feed > (U+000C). These appear to come from SPARQL 1.0 > (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#grammarEscapes) > > The addition of these may be a backwards incompatible change with > existing N-Triples parsers. I think this would instead be forwards-incompatible, that is, all old NTriples data will be parsable by new NTriples parsers, which was the design goal agreed upon by Oracle. > If people feel strongly enough about this issue to break with the > current design goal of SPARQL alignment we'll need to create an issue > and make the requisite changes to the document. > > --Gavin > -- -ericP
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