RE: RDF Syntaxes 2.0

> From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org]
> On Behalf Of David Booth
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 10:49 AM
> To: Dave Beckett
> Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
> Subject: Re: RDF Syntaxes 2.0
> 
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 08:23 -0800, Dave Beckett wrote:
> [discussion of updating Turtle to handle quads / named graphs]
> > I was more thinking of allowing something like
> >
> > <s> <p> <o> <g> .

Why does Turtle need to handle quads when there is the Trig format which does handle graphs and is a superset of Turtle?  What am I missing here?

>  - the graph URI would be easier to strip off when converting the quads
> back to triples, because one could simply strip everything through the
> first space on each line -- a very easy sed script.

Note, I think you mean "strip everything through the first *whitespace*".  Regardless of N-triples or Turtle each <s> <p> <o> can be on separate physical lines:

<s>
  <p>
  <o>
  .


Andy.

Received on Monday, 8 March 2010 16:07:21 UTC