- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:29:03 +0100
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- cc: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
>>>Dan Connolly said: > > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 12:35, bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com wrote: > [...] > > o The n-triples form: > > > > <a> <b> <dt1>"foo" . > > > > requires further parser lookahead than say: > > > > <a> <b> "foo"<dt1> . > > > > The latter is easier to parse. > > Oh! yeah verily. I was also wondering about that myself for similar reasons but didn't expect anyone else was worrying about such things, and wasn't going to propose it. +1 then > TimBL and I were just discussing that > the other day... > > Granted, n-triples is only informally related to N3, > but we do have some relevant implementation experience, > and it would be nice to build on it. I'd like to schedule a chat about that sometime - maybe on IRC. > We haven't finished coding up the details, > but he proposed > "foo"^^<dt1>. > > because it harks to his "path" shortcut > for [ <dt1> "foo"], namely "foo"^<dt1>. > > We're not particular about ^^ vs some > other delimiter, but having the <dt1> > come after the "foo" makes life much easier > for implementation in cwm. My other issue was re-aligning "foo"-en with N3, if that's possible. Dave
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