[redland-dev] Blank nodes

[Jasper van de Gronde]

When I try parsing the following N-Triples "document" (the same is true 
for similar Turtle and RDF/XML):
<item> <prop> _:a .
_:a <prop> <value> .
The parser reports the anonymous node to be a, to me this seems strange 
as at least in RDF/XML the rdf:nodeID property is said to be "scoped to 
the containing XML Information Set document information item", which to 
me implies that it should handled as such. I could understand this if 
automatically generated blank node id's would be similar, but they ARE 
prefixed by the filename (I use raptor_set_default_generate_id_parameters).

So my question is: Is this a bug or a feature? And if it's a feature, 
would I be able to change this behaviour by using a generate_id_handler 
callback?

Also, according to this:
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/2004/01/turtle/
Turtle should support the following construct:
   ex:editor [
     ex:fullname "Dave Beckett";
     ex:homePage <http://purl.org/net/dajobe/>
   ] .
Currently it simply seems to ignore this (at least in my - limited - 
tests). I used the following test document:
<item> <prop> [
   <prop> value ;
   <prop> value
] .
This results in no triples being found at all, while the following does 
(should be equivalent, except perhaps for the naming of the blank node, 
but that shouldn't matter):
<item> <prop> _:a .
_:a
   <prop> <value> ;
   <prop> <value> .