- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:38:25 +0100
- To: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- cc: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>, fmanola <fmanola@mitre.org>, em@w3.org, www-rdf-comments <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
>>>Seth Russell said: > From: "Aaron Swartz" <me@aaronsw.com> > > But N-Triples can't have line breaks in the middle of a statement. > > Good point. Is it too late to allow line breaks in the middle of N-Triple > statements? Me thinks that is it wierd and contra productive to exclude > them. Most program code will be simpler if they were allowed ... also > descriptions like in the Primer will be Since I'm the N-Triples editor, I'll answer It is not too late but it is simpler with a line based format than having to read lots of lines to find the terminator. The test for me is that N-Triples works the way it is now, for the purpose it was designed - test cases for RDF Core implementations and connecting the model and syntax, other work together. At this stage in our work, N-Triples changes only when it needs to, in order to meet requirements for testing purposes. > Incidentaly what does the 'N' in 'N-Triples' stand for ? Me thinks this > format would be better just called 'Triples'. N is from N3. But Triples would be less unique and distinctive and there is also an RDF system called Triple that it would be confused with I suspect. Dave
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