ISSUE-89: Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix?

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Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDF Turtle

Raised by:

Sandro Hawke

Opened on:

2012-05-09

Description:

The syntaxes of Turtle and SPARQL are very strongly aligned. There's one glaring difference now, I think. Turtle has people use "@prefix" to declare their namespace prefixes, but SPARQL uses "PREFIX".

Surely this is going to confuse and frustrate users.

PROPOSED: Turtle be defined to allow either @prefix or PREFIX, with PREFIX preferred and used in all the examples.

revised to....

PROPOSED: Make the @-sign and period optional on 'prefix' and 'base' in Turtle

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Related emails:

1. edits made for Turtle CR (from eric@w3.org on 2013-10-23)
2. Re: PLEASE VOTE on Turtle feature-at-risk: allow/diallow PREFIX & BASE (from guus.schreiber@vu.nl on 2013-05-23)
3. Re: PLEASE VOTE on Turtle feature-at-risk: allow/diallow PREFIX & BASE (from pfpschneider@gmail.com on 2013-05-23)
4. Re: Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from sandro@w3.org on 2012-05-15)
5. Re: Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from gavin@carothers.name on 2012-05-15)
6. Re: Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from sandro@w3.org on 2012-05-15)
7. Re: Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-05-15)
8. Re: Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from sandro@w3.org on 2012-05-15)
9. Re: Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com on 2012-05-15)
10. Re: Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from gavin@carothers.name on 2012-05-14)
11. Remaining Open Issues in Turtle (from gavin@carothers.name on 2012-05-14)
12. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from tom@tombaker.org on 2012-05-14)
13. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from david@3roundstones.com on 2012-05-11)
14. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from sandro@w3.org on 2012-05-11)
15. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com on 2012-05-11)
16. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from steve.harris@garlik.com on 2012-05-11)
17. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-05-10)
18. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from sandro@w3.org on 2012-05-10)
19. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com on 2012-05-10)
20. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2012-05-10)
21. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from nathan@webr3.org on 2012-05-10)
22. Re: RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from sandro@w3.org on 2012-05-10)
23. RDF-ISSUE-89 (at-prefix): Should Turtle allow SPARQL's PREFIX like @prefix? [RDF Turtle] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-05-09)

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