Re: [N-Quads] N-Quads spec should say it is a superset of N-Triples

On 27/02/15 23:22, David Booth wrote:
> For whenever the next update is made . . .
>
> The N-Quads spec
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-n-quads-20140225/
> should say up front that every N-Triples document is also an N-Quads
> document, rather than forcing the reader to guess or try to figure it
> out from comparing the two specifications.
>
> Similarly, the N-Triples spec should say that N-Triples is a subset of
> N-Quads.   It already says that it is a subset of Turtle:
> "N-Triples is an easy to parse line-based subset of Turtle [TURTLE]."

Slightly "devil's advocate" but while it is a subset by syntax, it is 
not exactly a subset in all ways.

When bytes are treated as N-Quads it means the default graph of a 
dataset; as N-triples, it does not say that.

 Andy

>
> Thanks,
> David Booth
>
>

Received on Saturday, 28 February 2015 17:41:28 UTC