RE: N-Triples VS RDF/XML bNode identifiers

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, pat hayes wrote:

> Well, OK, but guys, he has a point. Why not just tweak Ntriples to
> allow all of ASCII? That wouldn't break any of our stuff and it would
> be generally good-citizen-ish.

I believe that the (tacit) motivation is to maintain some level of
compatibility with N3, where (in particular) "-" is a reserved
character.

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