Re: SPIN Syntax simplified

> Turtle allows prefixes to be
> re-defined:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/#prefixed-name
> so that means that the same prefix could be bound to different URIs at
> different points, [...]
> but I seem to remember that
> there was a good reason for permitting redefinition, though perhaps in
> hindsight it was a mistake. 

I guess it is done like that so that turtle documents (like n-triples)
can simple be concatenated to form a merged document.
Although if use bnode IDs you need to think twice before doing this.

- Gunnar

Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:58:01 UTC