- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:53:46 -0400
- To: W3C RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <51DCCCBA.60901@w3.org>
Text for completing ACTION-279 pertaining to ISSUE-137 is below (proposed text for the TriG spec, describing the two features at risk). The document doesn't have a ToC which makes it a little hard to see where it should go, but I'm thinking right before or right after the grammar. -- Sandro Feature At Risk: GRAPH Keyword In this version of TriG, but not previous versions, the keyword "GRAPH" may occur before graph names, as specified in the grammar. When this keyword is present, the syntax of TriG aligns with the syntax of SPARQL, so sections of a TriG document can be cut-and-pasted into SPARQL queries, and people used to reading SPARQL can more easily understand TriG documents. This keyword is ignored by parsers for this version of TriG, but may cause a syntax error for older parsers, so its use should be avoided until all likely TriG-consuming systems have updated parsers. Once updated parsers are widespread, the use of GRAPH keyword is suggested to provide alignment with SPARQL. This feature is marked as being "at risk", which means the Working Group seeks feedback from the community on whether to allow the GRAPH keyword to be present in TriG. The group might remove this feature without publishing another Last Call Working Draft. Users with a strong preference or with information which might influence the Working Group's decision whether to keep this feature are encouraged to send feedback. Feature At Risk: Bare Triples In this version of TriG, but not previous versions, triples in the default graph are allowed to occur outside of any curly braces. This feature is provided in order to align the TriG syntax with the SPARQL syntax, to allow for cut-and-paste and for easier TriG comprehension by people working with SPARQL. It also makes TriG an extension of Turtle; a TriG file using bare triples and no named graphs is also a Turtle file (with the same semantics). Bare triples will not be understood by some older TriG parsers, so their use should be avoided until all likely TriG-consuming systems have updated parsers. Once updated parsers are widespread, the use of bare triples is suggested to provide alignment with SPARQL. This feature is marked as being "at risk", which means the Working Group seeks feedback from the community on whether to allow bare triple in TriG. The group might remove this feature without publishing another Last Call Working Draft. Users with a strong preference or with information which might influence the Working Group's decision whether to keep this feature are encouraged to send feedback.
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