Dropping the redundant colon in N3 from Seth Russell on 2001-01-20 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from January 2001) (original) (raw)

After writing the following passage in N3 {

:Seth :thinksCool :N3; :properName "Seth Russell"; fopl:mailbox "mailbox:seth@robustai.net"; :lookingFor [<who:Programmer#x :wantsToProgram :SemBrowser]. :N3 :primerAt <http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html>;

   dc:author :TimBL.

who:Programmer#x :salaryRequriement "0". :SemBrowser rdfs:label "Semantic Web Browser".}

it dawned on me that if we assumed that a token, not starting with ":" or quotes, was a URI fragment of the default namespace, we could drop the annoying redundant colon with no loss of expressivity. My signature for today would then become {

Seth thinksCool N3; properName "Seth Russell"; fopl:mailbox "mailbox:seth@robustai.net"; lookingFor [who:Programmer#x wantsToProgram SemBrowser]. N3 primerAt http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html; dc:author TimBL. who:Programmer#x salaryRequriement "0". SemBrowser rdfs:label "Semantic Web Browser". }

Is that ok, Tim ?

Received on Saturday, 20 January 2001 14:06:06 UTC