Hi Paolo,

The hash sign '#' starts a comment in Turtle - so the content after it is
ignored by Turtle parsers.
BTW, you can validate Turtle here - http://www.rdfabout.com/demo/validator/.

Regards,
Vadim

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Paolo Castagna <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am not sure whether this is legal Turtle or not:
>
> ------
> @prefix : <http://example.org/> .
> @prefix foaf:   <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
>
> :alice#me
>    a           foaf:Person ;
>    foaf:name   "Alice" ;
>    foaf:mbox   <mailto:[email protected]> ;
>    foaf:knows  :bob#me ;
>    foaf:knows  :charlie#me ;
>    foaf:knows  :snoopy#me ;
>    .
> ------
>
> When I try to parse it using Jena:
>
>  Model model = ModelFactory.createDefaultModel();
>  model.read(in, null, "TURTLE");
>
> I get this exception:
>
> Exception in thread "main" com.hp.hpl.jena.n3.turtle.TurtleParseException:
> Encountered " <PNAME_LN> "foaf:knows "" at line 9, column 5.
> Was expecting one of:
>    ";" ...
>    "," ...
>    "." ...
>
>        at
> com.hp.hpl.jena.n3.turtle.ParserTurtle.parse(ParserTurtle.java:41)
>        at
> com.hp.hpl.jena.n3.turtle.TurtleReader.readWorker(TurtleReader.java:21)
>        at
> com.hp.hpl.jena.n3.JenaReaderBase.readImpl(JenaReaderBase.java:101)
>        at com.hp.hpl.jena.n3.JenaReaderBase.read(JenaReaderBase.java:68)
>        at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ModelCom.read(ModelCom.java:226)
>        [...]
>
> If I try to parse it using RIOT:
>
>  RIOT.init() ;
>  Model model = ModelFactory.createDefaultModel();
>  model.read(in, null, "TURTLE");
>
> I get this exception:
>
> ERROR [main] (ErrorHandlerFactory.java:62) - [line: 9, col: 5 ] Triples not
> terminated by DOT
> Exception in thread "main" com.hp.hpl.jena.shared.JenaException:
> org.openjena.riot.RiotException: [line: 9, col: 5 ] Triples not terminated
> by DOT
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.system.JenaReaderRIOT.readImpl(JenaReaderRIOT.java:132)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.system.JenaReaderRIOT.read(JenaReaderRIOT.java:79)
>        at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ModelCom.read(ModelCom.java:226)
>        [...]
> Caused by: org.openjena.riot.RiotException: [line: 9, col: 5 ] Triples not
> terminated by DOT
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.ErrorHandlerFactory$ErrorHandlerStd.fatal(ErrorHandlerFactory.java:110)
>        at org.openjena.riot.lang.LangBase.raiseException(LangBase.java:201)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.lang.LangBase.exceptionDirect(LangBase.java:194)
>        at org.openjena.riot.lang.LangBase.exception(LangBase.java:187)
>        at org.openjena.riot.lang.LangBase.expect(LangBase.java:179)
>        at org.openjena.riot.lang.LangBase.expectOrEOF(LangBase.java:170)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.lang.LangTurtle.expectEndOfTriples(LangTurtle.java:45)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.lang.LangTurtleBase.triples(LangTurtleBase.java:246)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.lang.LangTurtleBase.triplesSameSubject(LangTurtleBase.java:206)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.lang.LangTurtle.oneTopLevelElement(LangTurtle.java:34)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.lang.LangTurtleBase.runParser(LangTurtleBase.java:132)
>        at org.openjena.riot.lang.LangBase.parse(LangBase.java:71)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.system.JenaReaderTurtle2.readWorker(JenaReaderTurtle2.java:34)
>        at
> org.openjena.riot.system.JenaReaderRIOT.readImpl(JenaReaderRIOT.java:120)
>        ... 3 more
>
> I would be tempted to say that it should be treated as legal Turtle:
> http://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/turtle/#qname
>
> But it seems that '#' in the qname is treated a comment:
> http://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/turtle/#comment
>
> I tried to use the directive @base instead of @prefix : <
> http://example.org/> .
> I have the same exceptions in both cases.
>
> Perhaps the Turtle above is 'unusual' and I do not necessarily need to use
> that.
> But, since it occurred, I would like to understand if it's legal (and we
> have a small bug) or not.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paolo
>

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