- pasto
authorEric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:21:10 -0400
changeset 240 8869e580c59e
parent 239 5e79b357dec0
child 241 0a40a05da374
- pasto
rdf-turtle/N-Turples.html
--- a/rdf-turtle/N-Turples.html	Sun Mar 25 13:57:26 2012 -0400
+++ b/rdf-turtle/N-Turples.html	Sun Mar 25 15:21:10 2012 -0400
@@ -213,9 +213,10 @@
 
 				<p>
 				  The <code>@prefix</code> directive associates a prefix label with an IRI.
+				  Subsequent <code>@prefix</code> directives may re-map the same local name.
 				  A prefixed name is a prefix label and a local part, separated by a colon ":".
 				  A prefixed name is mapped to an IRI by concatenating the IRI associated with the prefix and the local part.
-				  The local part of a prefixed name may have <a href="#reserved">reserved character escape sequences</a> (described below) to represent the characters ples language includes absolute IRIs but no relative IRIs or prefixed names.
+				  The local part of a prefixed name may have <a href="#reserved">reserved character escape sequences</a> (described below).
 				</p>
 
 				<div class="note">
@@ -236,9 +237,10 @@
 				</p>
 				<p>
 				  The <code>@base</code> directive defines the Base IRI used to resolve relative IRIs per RFC3986 section 5.1.1, "Base URI Embedded in Content".
-				  Section 5.1.2, "Base URI from the Encapsulating Entity" defines how the Base IRI may come from an encapsulating document, such as a SOAP envelope with an xml:base directive or a mime multipart document with a Content-Location header.
+				  Section 5.1.2, "Base URI from the Encapsulating Entity" defines how the In-Scope Base IRI may come from an encapsulating document, such as a SOAP envelope with an xml:base directive or a mime multipart document with a Content-Location header.
 				  The "Retrieval URI" identified in 5.1.3, Base "URI from the Retrieval URI", is the URL from which a particular SPARQL query was retrieved.
 				  If none of the above specifies the Base URI, the default Base URI (section 5.1.4, "Default Base URI") is used.
+				  Each <code>@base</code> directive sets a new In-Scope Base URI, relative to the previous one.
 				</p>
 
 				<p>