- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:08:09 +0000
- To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>, Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
Jan Grant wrote: > 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. I was sure there was a reason and was waiting for it to appear. I expect a response, probably from Dave, along the lines of: - lunch ain't free - because RDF/XML is not restricted to US ascii, but permits international characters, an implementation must do some processing to translate RDF/XML bnode ID's to b-triples bnode IDs - the n-triple b-node id's are designed to be compatible with N3 as some implementations use N3 processors should put this one to bed. Brian
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