--- a/rdf-primer/index.html Wed Nov 13 11:06:14 2013 +0000
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html Wed Nov 13 12:21:13 2013 +0100
@@ -682,13 +682,15 @@
<p>Because string literals are so ubiquitous Turtle allows the user to
omit the datatype when writing a string literal. Thus, <code>"This is a
string"</code> is equivalent to <code>"This is a
-string"^^xsd:string</code>. Strings can be language-tagged; the tag
-appears directly after the string, separated by a "@" symbol, and before the
-datatype. An example with language tag and datatype would be:
+string"^^xsd:string</code>. </p>
-<div class="example">
- <code>"This is an English string"@en^^xsd:string</code>
-</div>
+<p>Strings can be language-tagged; the tag
+appears directly after the string, separated by a "@" symbol. In the
+case of language-tagged strings no datatype is specifed explictly.
+
+<p class="note">The RDF data model assigns the datatype <code>rdf:langString</code>
+to language-typed literals, but in the Turtle syntax this datatype is
+implicit. </p>
<p>The above is by no means a full account of the Turtle syntax. For
more details about the syntax of Turtle the reader is referred to the