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<section id="conformance">
- <p>Implementations are free to represent <a title="RDF graph">RDF graphs</a> in
- any other equivalent form.</p>
+ <p>This specification, <em>RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax</em>,
+ defines a data model and related terminology for use in
+ other specifications, such as
+ <a title="concrete RDF syntax">concrete RDF syntaxes</a>,
+ API specifications, and query languages.
+ Implementations cannot directly conform to
+ <em>RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax</em>,
+ but can conform to such other specifications that are based on the
+ RDF data model.</p>
- <p class="issue">This section needs to explain what kind of artefact
- can conform to this specification, and what is required in order to
- conform.</p>
+ <p>Another specification conforms to
+ <em>RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax</em> if it defines operations
+ in terms of <a title="RDF graph">RDF graphs</a>
+ or <a title="RDF dataset">RDF datasets</a>, and if any use of
+ terminology defined in normative sections of
+ <em>RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax</em>
+ is consistent with its definitions and conformance requirements.</p>
</section>
@@ -1122,6 +1133,7 @@
<h2>Changes from RDF 2004</h2>
<ul>
+ <li>2012-05-10: New <a href="#conformance">Conformance section</a> to explain that this specification is not implemented directly, but through other specifications that use our definitions</li>
<li>2012-05-10: Simplified <code><a>rdf:XMLLiteral</a></code>'s new value space slightly after feedback from Ivan Herman and Arnaud Le Hors.</li>
<li>2012-05-10: Added an informative subsection on <a href="#vocabularies">RDF vocabularies and namespace IRIs</a>.</li>
<li>2012-05-09: Removed an example from the conformance section that didn't make sense any more with the modified <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code>. Added some new issue boxes.</li>