Re: Named Graph Serialisation

Chris,

I would really like to be able to parse Trix as N3.  It is so close!
why not use a subset of N3?

Instead of
:G2 { :Monica rdf:type ex:Person .
       :Monica ex:hasSkill ex:Programming }

why not use

:G2 trix:graph { :Monica rdf:type ex:Person .
       :Monica ex:hasSkill ex:Programming }.

which is N3.  There are subsets of N3 for NTriple, N3 rules, N3/rdf,  
Turtle, N3/query, and so on.
A subset which is used for just expressing the contents of graphs  
would be easy to define.

If the predicate trix:graph actually refers to a graph one would  
expect to get by dereferencing the document G2, then log:semantics  
could  be  used.   (I have wondered about adding shortcut  like :-  
or   @= for log:semantics as it crops up so often.)

If on the other hand the semantics is that G2 is the graph (not the  
document), the owl:sameAs could be used, where the shortcut is = so  
you would get

:G2 = { :Monica rdf:type ex:Person .
       :Monica ex:hasSkill ex:Programming }.

Making the predicate optional, and omitting the final "." messes up  
the compatibility.  Two small changes!  Thank you for making the rest  
compatible as it is.

Tim