Re: tab2rdf.py doesn't generate Turtle

Ah, there still is a bug, when a line with correct number of column
ends in *two* tab characters / empty columns... (this is a real life
example)

Input:  (note 3rd line ends with two tab characters)

head1 head2 head3 head4
x11 x12 x13 x13
x21 x22  

Output:

# headings found:  4 ['head1', 'head2', 'head3', 'head4']
[]
    :head1 "x11";
    :head2 "x12";
    :head3 "x13";
    :head4 "x13".
#  4 headings but 3 values
[]
    :head1 "x21";
    :head2 "x22";
# Total number of records: 2


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org> wrote:
> Ah, I think this is my problem... too few headings added to top of
> file. The comment about getting a syntax error on output when there
> are too many input columns and the last is empty still holds, but
> that's really an input error so I'll take the blame. Sorry for the
> false alarm
>
> Jonathan
>
> # headings found:  3 ['head1', 'head2', 'head3']
> []
>    :head1 "x11";
>    :head2 "x12";
>    :head3 "x13".
> []
>    :head1 "x21";
>    :head3 "x23".
> #  3 headings but 2 values
> []
>    :head1 "x31";
>    :head2 "x32".
> []
>    :head1 "x41";
>    :head2 "x42";
> #  3 headings but 4 values
> []
>    :head1 "x51";
>    :head2 "x52";
>    :column3 "x54".
> #  3 headings but 4 values
> []
>    :head1 "x61";
>    :head2 "x62";
>    :head3 "x63";
>    :column3 "x64".
> # Total number of records: 6
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick fix. Now I'm having trouble with files that have
>> empty columns (two tabs in a row).  It would be nice if the script
>> interpreted that situation as meaning that the value is the empty
>> string; or else as there being no value at all... anything that treats
>> tabs as significant and keeps things aligned the way Excel would.
>>
>> (Also, if there is an extra column with an empty value, i.e. extra tab
>> char at end of line, you get syntactically incorrect output.)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jonathan
>>
>> head1   head2   head3
>> x11     x12     x13
>> x21             x23
>> x31     x32
>> x41     x42
>> x51     x52             x54
>> x61     x62     x63     x64
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
>>> SIgh.  A random and unnecessary departure of turtle from N3 IMHO.
>>>
>>> Changed the code anyway.  Almost 10 years on
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> total revisions: 6;     selected revisions: 6
>>> description:
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.6
>>> date: 2010/08/02 22:01:22;  author: timbl;  state: Exp;  lines: +31 -8
>>> See mail from JAR to public-cwm-talk mid:AANLkTingr3WLyjOFVQqz-v5AASMe4sFbqkhn4ap26DiG@mail.gmail.com
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.5
>>> date: 2007/10/18 20:55:41;  author: timbl;  state: Exp;  lines: +38 -17
>>> doublequote escaping
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.4
>>> date: 2007/06/26 02:36:15;  author: syosi;  state: Exp;  lines: +55 -55
>>> fix tabs
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.3
>>> date: 2000/11/10 23:04:18;  author: timbl;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
>>> Starting basis for qualifiers
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.2
>>> date: 2000/11/02 20:48:45;  author: timbl;  state: Exp;  lines: +10 -0
>>> first schema hack
>>> ----------------------------
>>> revision 1.1
>>> date: 2000/10/31 15:56:37;  author: timbl;  state: Exp;
>>> Hacked TabDelimted-windows format to n3 converter
>>> =============================================================================
>>>
>>> On 2010-08 -02, at 16:37, Jonathan Rees wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/tab2n3.py
>>>> and have discovered the hard way that it doesn't generate Turtle...
>>>> not that it claims to, but I felt like complaining.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently the Turtle grammar requires a predicate and object
>>>> following each subject, and in the output of tab2n3 there are subjects
>>>> with no predicate and object. E.g.
>>>>
>>>> # headings found:  3 ['strain_id', 'strain_name', 'strain_type']
>>>> [
>>>>    :strain_id "MGI:2164743";
>>>>    :strain_name "(C57BL/6JEiJ x C3Sn.BLiA-Pde6b<+>)F1";
>>>>    :strain_type "Not Specified";
>>>> ] .
>>>>
>>>> Here's what the Turtle submission says:
>>>>
>>>> [6]   triples ::=     subject predicateObjectList
>>>> [7]   predicateObjectList     ::=     verb objectList ( ';' verb objectList )* ( ';')?
>>>>
>>>> To generate correct Turtle is possible but awkward. You could say
>>>> tab2n3 is working as designed, and was never meant to generate Turtle,
>>>> only N3, but... wouldn't it be nice?
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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