Paul Houle> The production for a QName cannot begin with a number
I think you're reading some very old specs.
David Booth> this particular issue has
been fixed in SPARQL 1.1 and Turtle 1.1, last I
checked not all tools
had been upgraded to those specs
I think all the important tools have been upgraded a long time ago.
http://vocab.getty.edu uses numeric local-names for 2 years now, and I haven't heard
any complaints.
Dotted local-names used to be a problem (since dot is "end of pattern" in Turtle
and SPARQL) 3-4 years ago, but I think the tools have fixed that as well.
You still can't use slash & hash in local names though (afaik CURIEs can do that),
so instead we use dash. Eg
aat_source:18469-subject-43956
is aat_source:18469 as applied to "subject" (concept) aat:43956
Austin William Wright > @base <http://isbn.example.com/I>
doesn't really make any sense to have the trailing
"I" on the @base,
since that's going to get wiped out during the URI Reference resolution process,
I think this is false.
Cheers!