Re: Are spaces allowed between terms in N-Triples 1.1?

Hi,

IMO the following line from the intro of the N-Triples spec says it all: "N-Triples is an easy to parse line-based subset of Turtle"

Parsing (or even thinking about) stuff like

<foo><bar>"bla".
:::.
x:a :b"foo". 

is way more complicated (and by that not easy) than single space delimited RDF terms.

I'm strongly against ever encouraging the no-space form, as i really think we don't need this kind of unnecessary complication.

Also I'm a fan of good old unix tools such as sort, grep, sed... ([1] for an example).
I'm not saying it's impossible, but without the space it's definitely more complicated and error prone.

That said: let's update the specs? (erratum / next version?)

Best,
Jörn

[1]: https://joernhees.de/blog/2015/01/28/dbpedia-2014-stats-top-subjects-predicates-and-objects/

Received on Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:00:41 UTC