--- a/rdf-concepts/index.html Wed Apr 25 16:59:23 2012 -0700
+++ b/rdf-concepts/index.html Wed Apr 25 17:00:33 2012 -0700
@@ -394,8 +394,6 @@
<p>An RDF triple is conventionally written in the order subject,
predicate, object.</p>
- <p>The predicate is also known as the <dfn>property</dfn> of the triple.</p>
-
<p>The set of <dfn title="node">nodes</dfn> of an <a>RDF graph</a>
is the set of subjects and objects of triples in the graph.
Predicate IRIs MAY also appear as nodes in the graph.</p>
@@ -492,7 +490,7 @@
<ul>
<li>a <dfn>lexical form</dfn> being a Unicode [[!UNICODE]] string,
- which should be in Normal Form C [[!NFC]],</li>
+ which SHOULD be in Normal Form C [[!NFC]],</li>
<li>a <dfn>datatype IRI</dfn> being an <a>IRI</a> that establishes
the <a>literal value</a>.</li>
</ul>
@@ -996,10 +994,10 @@
then the literal value is a pair consisting of its <a>lexical form</a>
and its <a>language tag</a>, in that order.</li>
<li><strong>If the literal's <a>datatype IRI</a> is not in the
- <a>datatype map</a>,</strong> then the literal value is
- not defined by this specification.</li>
+ implementation-defined <a>datatype map</a>,</strong> then the literal value
+ is not defined by this specification.</li>
<li>Let <em>d</em> be the <a>datatype</a> associated with the
- datatype IRI in the datatype map.</li>
+ datatype IRI in the implementation-defined datatype map.</li>
<li><strong>If the literal's <a>lexical form</a> is in the
<a>lexical space</a> of <em>d</em>,</strong> then the literal value
is the result of applying the <a>lexical-to-value mapping</a>
@@ -1119,11 +1117,11 @@
<p>Primary resources may have multiple representations
(a.k.a. content negotiation). Fragments in RDF-bearing representations
- SHOULD be used consistently with the semantics imposed by any
+ should be used consistently with the semantics imposed by any
non-RDF representations. For example, if the fragment
<code>#chapter1</code> identifies a document section in an
HTML representation of a primary resource, then <code>#chapter1</code>
- SHOULD be taken to denote that same section in all RDF-bearing
+ should be taken to denote that same section in all RDF-bearing
representations of the same primary resource.</p>
<p>Likewise, RDF graphs embedded in non-RDF representations
@@ -1161,6 +1159,7 @@
<h2>Changes from RDF 2004</h2>
<ul>
+ <li>2012-04-26: Remove normative definition of “property” as it disagreed with RDF Semantics; small editorial changes.</li>
<li>2011-11-21: Updated XHTML 1.0 reference to XHTML 1.1</li>
<li>2011-11-20: Added table of <a>RDF-compatible XSD types</a>, and definition of <a>datatype map</a>, both adapted from previous content in [[RDF-MT]]
<li>2011-11-18: Replaced informative <em>Introduction</em> and <em>RDF Concepts</em> sections with a new extended introduction. Folded some content from <em>RDF Concepts</em> into the later normative sections, mostly as examples and notes.</li>