--- a/ReSpec.js/bibref/biblio.js Thu May 26 19:49:22 2011 +0100
+++ b/ReSpec.js/bibref/biblio.js Fri May 27 10:24:55 2011 +0100
@@ -3,11 +3,7 @@
// @@@ These are temporary local additions for rdf-concepts; they should be either removed (many are obsolete) or added to the global file in CVS
// Old stuff from 1.0
"RFC2279" : "<a href=\"http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2279\"><cite>RFC 2279 - UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646</cide></a>, F. Yergeau, IETF, January 1998. This document is http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2279",
- "RFC2396" : "<a href=\"http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2396\"><cite>RFC 2396 - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax</cite></a>, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding and L. Masinter, IETF, August 1998. This document is http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2396",
- "RFC2732" : "<a href=\"http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732\"><cite>RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's</cite></a>, R. Hinden, B. Carpenter and L. Masinter, IETF, December 1999. This document is http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732",
"RFC3066" : "<a href=\"http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3066\"><cite>RFC 3066 - Tags for the Identification of Languages</cite></a>, H. Alvestrand, IETF, January 2001. This document is http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3066",
- "IRI-DRAFT" : "<a href=\"http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri-04\"><cite>Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)</cite></a>, M. Dürst and M. Suignard, Internet-Draft, June 2003, expires December 2003. This document is http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri-04",
- "TAG" : "<a href=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues\"><cite>TAG Issues List</cite></a>, W3C Technical Architecture Group. This document is http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues",
"RDF-MIME-TYPE" : "<a href=\"http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/\"><cite>MIME Media Types</cite></a>, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This document is http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ . The <a href=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/mediatype-registration\">registration for <code>application/rdf+xml</code></a> is archived at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/mediatype-registration .",
// New stuff
"RDF-PLAINLITERAL" : "Jie Bao; Sandro Hawke; Boris Motik; Peter F. Patel-Schneider; Axel Polleres. <a href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-rdf-plain-literal-20091027/\"><cite>rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain Literals.</cite></a> 27 October 2009. W3C Recommendation. URL: <a href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-rdf-plain-literal-20091027/\">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-rdf-plain-literal-20091027/</a>",
--- a/index.html Thu May 26 19:49:22 2011 +0100
+++ b/index.html Fri May 27 10:24:55 2011 +0100
@@ -117,8 +117,7 @@
doRDFa: true,
};
-// @@@ The followig references have been patched into the local berjon.biblio and need to be either changed, or added to the global biblio in CVS:
-// RFC-2279 RFC-2396 RFC-2732 RFC-3066 IRI-DRAFT TAG RDF-MIME-TYPE
+// @@@ A number of references have been patched into the local berjon.biblio and need to be added to the global biblio in CVS:
</script>
</head>
@@ -131,7 +130,7 @@
on which RDF is based, and which serves to link its concrete
syntax to its formal semantics. It also includes discussion of
design goals, key concepts, datatyping, character normalization
- and handling of URI references.</p>
+ and handling of IRIs.</p>
</section>
@@ -147,7 +146,7 @@
This abstract syntax is quite distinct from XML's tree-based infoset
[[XML-INFOSET]]. It also includes discussion of design goals,
key concepts, datatyping, character normalization
- and handling of URI references.</p>
+ and handling of IRIs.</p>
<p>Normative documentation of RDF falls into the following
areas:</p>
@@ -187,7 +186,6 @@
<li>Revisit informative sections 2 and 3; do they add value? Section 3 is very redundant with later normative sections</li>
<li>RFC 3066 is obsoleted by BCP47</li>
<li>RFC 2279 is obsoleted by RFC 3629</li>
- <li>RFC 2396 is obsoleted by RFC 3986</li>
<li>Change OWL reference to OWL2?</li>
<li>Change XHTML10 reference to XHTML5?</li>
<li>Should discuss rdf:PlainLiteral</li>
@@ -252,7 +250,7 @@
<ul>
<li>having a simple data model</li>
<li>having formal semantics and provable inference</li>
- <li>using an extensible URI-based vocabulary</li>
+ <li>using an extensible IRI-based vocabulary</li>
<li>using an XML-based syntax</li>
<li>supporting use of XML schema datatypes</li>
<li>allowing anyone to make statements about any
@@ -285,12 +283,10 @@
<section id="section-extensible-vocab">
- <h4>Extensible URI-based Vocabulary</h4>
+ <h4>Extensible IRI-based Vocabulary</h4>
- <p>The vocabulary is fully extensible, being based on URIs with
- optional fragment identifiers (<cite>URI references</cite>, or
- <cite>URIrefs</cite>). URI references are used for naming all kinds
- of things in RDF.</p>
+ <p>The vocabulary is fully extensible, being based on IRIs.
+ IRIs are used for naming all kinds of things in RDF.</p>
<p>The other kind of value that appears in RDF data is a
literal.</p>
@@ -342,7 +338,7 @@
<ul>
<li>Graph data model</li>
- <li>URI-based vocabulary</li>
+ <li>IRI-based vocabulary</li>
<li>Datatypes</li>
@@ -396,31 +392,25 @@
</section>
-<section id="section-URI-Vocabulary">
- <h3>URI-based Vocabulary and Node Identification</h3>
+<section id="section-IRI-Vocabulary">
+ <h3>IRI-based Vocabulary and Node Identification</h3>
- <p>A node may be a URI with optional fragment identifier (<a
- title="URI reference">URI reference</a>, or <dfn><abbr>
- URIref</abbr></dfn>), a literal,
- or blank (having no separate form of identification).
- Properties are <cite>URI references</cite>. (See [[!RFC2396]],
- section 4, for a description of URI
- reference forms, noting that relative URIs are not used in an
- RDF graph. See also <a href="#section-Graph-URIref">section
- 6.4</a>.)</p>
- <p>A URI reference or literal used as a node identifies what
- that node represents. A URI reference used as a predicate
+ <p>A <a>node</a> may be an <a>IRI</a>, a <a>literal</a>,
+ or <a title="blank node">blank</a> (having no separate form of identification).
+ Properties are <a title="IRI">IRIs</a>.</p>
+ <p>An <a>IRI</a> or <a>literal</a> used as a node identifies what
+ that node represents. An IRI used as a predicate
identifies a relationship between the things represented by the nodes it connects. A
- predicate URI reference may also be a node in the graph.</p>
+ predicate IRI may also be a node in the graph.</p>
<p>A <a>blank node</a> is a node that is
- not a URI reference or a literal. In the RDF abstract syntax, a
+ not an IRI or a literal. In the RDF abstract syntax, a
blank node is just a unique node that can be used in one or
more RDF statements.</p>
<p>A convention used by some linear representations of an RDF
graph to allow several statements to use the same
blank node is to use a <dfn>blank node
identifier</dfn>, which is a local identifier that can be
- distinguished from all URIs and literals. When graphs are
+ distinguished from all IRIs and literals. When graphs are
merged, their blank nodes must be kept distinct if meaning is
to be preserved; this may call for re-allocation of blank node
identifiers. Note that such blank node identifiers are not part
@@ -474,7 +464,7 @@
<p>There is no built-in concept of numbers or dates or other common
values. Rather, RDF defers to datatypes that are defined
- separately, and identified with URI references.
+ separately, and identified with <a title="IRI">IRIs</a>.
The predefined XML Schema
datatypes [[!XMLSCHEMA-2]] are expected
to be widely used for this purpose.</p>
@@ -490,9 +480,9 @@
<section name="section-Literals">
<h3> Literals</h3>
- <p>Literals are used to identify values such as numbers and dates
+ <p><a title="literal">Literals</a> are used to identify values such as numbers and dates
by means of a lexical representation. Anything represented by a
- literal could also be represented by a URI, but it is often more
+ literal could also be represented by an <a>IRI</a>, but it is often more
convenient or intuitive to use literals.</p>
<p>A literal may be the object of an RDF statement, but not the
@@ -510,7 +500,7 @@
<li>A <a>typed literal</a> is a string combined with a
- datatype URI. It denotes the
+ <a>datatype IRI</a>. It denotes the
member of the identified datatype's value space obtained by
applying the lexical-to-value mapping to the literal string.</li>
</ul>
@@ -643,9 +633,9 @@
conjunction (logical-AND) of simple binary relationships. RDF does not
provide means to express negation (NOT) or disjunction (OR). </p>
- <p>Through its use of extensible URI-based vocabularies, RDF
+ <p>Through its use of extensible IRI-based vocabularies, RDF
provides for expression of facts about arbitrary subjects; i.e.
- assertions of named properties about specific named things. A URI
+ assertions of named properties about specific named things. An IRI
can be constructed for any thing that can be named, so RDF facts
can be about any such things. <!--
And, as noted above, RDF also
@@ -686,16 +676,14 @@
<section id="section-URIspaces">
- <h2>RDF Vocabulary URI and Namespace (Normative)</h2>
-
- <p>
+ <h2>RDF Vocabulary IRI and Namespace (Normative)</h2>
-RDF uses <a title="URI reference">URI references</a> to identify resources and properties. Certain
-URI references are given specific meaning by RDF. Specifically, URI
-references with the following leading substring are defined by the RDF
-specifications:
+ <p>RDF uses <a title="IRI">IRIs</a> to identify resources
+ and properties. Certain
+ IRIs are given specific meaning by RDF. Specifically, IRIs
+ with the following leading substring are defined by the RDF
+ specifications:</p>
-</p>
<ul>
<li><code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#</code>
(conventionally associated with namespace prefix <code>rdf:</code>)</li>
@@ -704,7 +692,7 @@
(conventionally associated with namespace prefix <code>rdfs:</code>)</li>
-->
</ul>
- <p>Used with the RDF/XML serialization, this URI prefix
+ <p>Used with the RDF/XML serialization, this IRI prefix
string corresponds to XML namespace names [[!XML-NAMES]] associated with the RDF
vocabulary terms.</p>
@@ -757,7 +745,7 @@
</li>
</ul>
<p>
-A datatype is identified by one or more URI references.
+A datatype is identified by one or more IRIs.
</p>
<p>
RDF may be used with any datatype definition that conforms to this
@@ -824,7 +812,7 @@
<dl>
- <dt><a name="XMLLiteral-uri" id="XMLLiteral-uri">A URI reference for
+ <dt><a name="XMLLiteral-uri" id="XMLLiteral-uri">An IRI for
identifying this datatype</a></dt>
<dd>is
@@ -938,19 +926,15 @@
<p>An <dfn>RDF triple</dfn> contains three components:</p>
<ul>
- <li>the <dfn>subject</dfn>,
-which is an <a title="URI reference">RDF URI reference</a>
-or a <a>blank node</a></li>
-
- <li>the <dfn>predicate</dfn>, which is an <a title="URI reference">RDF URI reference</a></li>
+ <li>the <dfn>subject</dfn>, which is an
+ <a>IRI</a> or a <a>blank node</a></li>
- <li>the <dfn>object</dfn>,
-which is an <a title="URI reference">RDF URI reference</a>,
-a <a>literal</a>
-or a <a>blank node</a>
-</li>
-
+ <li>the <dfn>predicate</dfn>, which is an <a>IRI</a></li>
+
+ <li>the <dfn>object</dfn>, which is an <a>IRI</a>,
+ a <a>literal</a> or a <a>blank node</a></li>
</ul>
+
<p>An RDF triple is conventionally written in the order subject,
predicate, object.</p>
@@ -971,7 +955,7 @@
<section id="section-graph-equality">
<h3>Graph Equivalence</h3>
- <p>Two RDF graphs <var>G</var> and <var>G'</var> are equivalent if there
+ <p>Two <a title="RDF graph">RDF graphs</a> <var>G</var> and <var>G'</var> are equivalent if there
is a bijection <var>M</var> between the sets of nodes of the two graphs,
such that:</p>
@@ -980,7 +964,7 @@
<li><var>M(lit)=lit</var> for all <a title="literal">RDF literals</a> <var>lit</var> which
are nodes of <var>G</var>.</li>
- <li><var>M(uri)=uri</var> for all <a title="URI reference">RDF URI references</a> <var>uri</var>
+ <li><var>M(uri)=uri</var> for all <a title="IRI">IRIs</a> <var>uri</var>
which are nodes of <var>G</var>.</li>
<li>The triple <var>( s, p, o )</var> is in <var>G</var> if and
@@ -993,86 +977,78 @@
</section>
-<section id="section-Graph-URIref">
- <h3>RDF URI References</h3>
-
- <p class="issue">The definition of <a title="URI reference">URI
- references</a> anticipated
- <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt">Internationalized
- Resource Identifiers</a> (IRIs) [[!IRI]] and is likely to be
- replaced with IRIs throughout. This is
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/8">ISSUE-8</a>.</p>
+<section id="section-IRIs">
+ <h3>IRIs</h3>
- <p>A <dfn title="URI reference">URI reference</dfn> within an RDF graph (an RDF URI reference) is a
- Unicode string [[!UNICODE]] that:
-</p>
-<ul>
-<li>does not contain any control characters ( #x00 - #x1F, #x7F-#x9F)
-</li>
-<li>and
- would produce a
-valid URI character sequence (per RFC2396 [[!RFC2396]], sections 2.1)
-representing an absolute URI with optional
-fragment identifier
- when subjected to the encoding described below.
-</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-The encoding consists of:
-</p>
-<ol>
-<li>encoding the Unicode string as UTF-8
-[[!RFC2279]], giving a sequence of octet values.
-</li>
-<li>
-%-escaping octets that do not correspond to permitted US-ASCII characters.
-</li>
-</ol>
-<p>
-The disallowed octets that must be %-escaped include all those that do not
-correspond to US-ASCII characters, and the excluded characters listed in
-Section 2.4 of [[!RFC2396]], except for the number sign (#), percent sign (%),
-and the square bracket characters re-allowed in [[!RFC2732]].
-</p>
-<p>
-Disallowed octets MUST be escaped with the URI escaping mechanism (that is, converted to %HH,
-where HH is the 2-digit hexadecimal numeral corresponding to the octet value).
-</p>
+ <p>An <dfn title="IRI"><acronym title="Internationalized Resource Identifier">IRI</acronym></dfn>
+ (Internationalized Resource Identifier) within an RDF graph
+ is a Unicode string [[!UNICODE]] that conforms to the syntax
+ defined in RFC 3987 [[!IRI]]. IRIs are a generalization of
+ <dfn title="URI"><acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym>s</dfn>
+ [[URI]]. Every absolute URI and URL is an IRI.</p>
-
- <p>Two RDF URI references are equal if and only if they compare as
- equal, character by character, as Unicode strings.</p>
-
- <p class="note">RDF URI references are compatible with the <a
- href=
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/#anyURI"><cite>
- anyURI</cite></a> datatype as defined by XML schema datatypes
- [[!XMLSCHEMA-2]], constrained to be an
- absolute rather than a relative URI reference.</p>
-
- <p class="note">RDF URI references are compatible with <a href=
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml-names11-20031105/#IRIs">International Resource
- Identifiers</a> as defined by [[XML-NAMES11]].</p>
+ <p>IRIs in the RDF abstract syntax MUST be absolute, and MAY
+ contain a fragment identifier.</p>
- <p class="note">This section anticipates an RFC on Internationalized Resource
-Identifiers. Implementations may issue warnings concerning the use
-of RDF URI References that do not conform with [[IRI-DRAFT]] or its
-successors.</p>
+ <p>Two IRIs are equal if and only if they are equivalent
+ under Simple String Comparison according to
+ <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987#section-5.1">section 5.1</a>
+ of [[!IRI]]. Further normalization MUST NOT be performed when
+ comparing IRIs for equality.</p>
- <p class="note">The restriction to absolute URI references is
- found in this abstract syntax. When there is a well-defined base
- URI, concrete syntaxes, such as RDF/XML, may permit relative URIs
- as a shorthand for such absolute URI references.</p>
+ <p class="note">When IRIs are used in operations that are only
+ defined for URIs, they must first be converted according to
+ the mapping defined in
+ <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987#section-3.1">section 3.1</a>
+ of [[!IRI]]. A notable example is retrieval over the HTTP
+ protocol. The mapping involves UTF-8 encoding of non-ASCII
+ characters, %-encoding of octets not allowed in URIs, and
+ Punycode-encoding of domain names.</p>
- <p class="note">Because of the risk of confusion between
-RDF URI references that would
-be equivalent if derefenced, the use of %-escaped characters in RDF URI
-references is strongly discouraged. See also the
-<a href=
-"http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#URIEquivalence-15">
-URI equivalence issue</a> of
-the Technical Architecture Group [[TAG]].</p>
+ <p class="note">Some concrete syntaxes permit relative IRIs
+ as a shorthand for absolute IRIs, and define how to resolve
+ the relative IRIs against a base IRI.</p>
+ <p class="note">Previous versions of RDF used the term
+ “<dfn>RDF URI Reference</dfn>” instead of “IRI” and allowed
+ additional characters:
+ “<code><</code>”, “<code>></code>”,
+ “<code>{</code>”, “<code>}</code>”,
+ “<code>|</code>”, “<code>\</code>”,
+ “<code>^</code>”, “<code>`</code>”,
+ ‘<code>“</code>’ (double quote), and “<code> </code>” (space).
+ In IRIs, these characters must be percent-encoded as
+ described in <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.1">section 2.1</a>
+ of [[URI]].</p>
+
+ <div class="note">
+ <p>Interoperability problems can be avoided by minting
+ only IRIs that are normalized according to
+ <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987#section-5">Section 5</a>
+ of [[!IRI]]. Non-normalized forms that should be avoided
+ include:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Uppercase characters in scheme names and domain names</li>
+ <li>Percent-encoding of characters where it is not
+ required by IRI syntax</li>
+ <li>Explicitly stated HTTP default port
+ (<code>http://example.com:80/</code>);
+ <code>http://example.com/</code> is preferrable</li>
+ <li>Completely empty path in HTTP IRIs
+ (<code>http://example.com</code>);
+ <code>http://example.com/</code> is preferrable</li>
+ <li>“<code>/./</code>” or “<code>/../</code>” in the path
+ component of an IRI</li>
+ <li>Lowercase hexadecimal letters within percent-encoding
+ triplets (“<code>%3F</code>” is preferable over
+ “<code>%3f</code>”)</li>
+ <li>Punycode-encoding of Internationalized Domain Names
+ in IRIs</li>
+ <li>IRIs that are not in Unicode Normalization
+ Form C [[!NFC]]</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
</section>
@@ -1086,7 +1062,7 @@
forms is under consideration. This is
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/12">ISSUE-12</a>.</p>
-<p>A <dfn>literal</dfn> in an RDF graph
+<p>A <dfn>literal</dfn> in an <a>RDF graph</a>
contains one or two named components.</p>
<p>All literals have a <dfn>lexical form</dfn> being a Unicode
[[!UNICODE]] string, which SHOULD be in Normal Form C [[!NFC]].</p>
@@ -1098,7 +1074,7 @@
defined by [[!RFC3066]], normalized to lowercase.</p>
<p><dfn title="typed literal">Typed literals</dfn> have a <a>lexical form</a>
- and a <dfn>datatype URI</dfn> being an <a title="URI reference">RDF URI reference</a>.</p>
+ and a <dfn>datatype IRI</dfn> being an <a>IRI</a>.</p>
<p class="note">Literals in which the lexical form begins with a
@@ -1135,39 +1111,39 @@
<li>The language tags, if any, compare
equal.</li>
- <li>Either both or neither have datatype URIs.</li>
+ <li>Either both or neither have datatype IRIs.</li>
- <li>The two datatype URIs, if any, compare equal, character by
+ <li>The two datatype IRIs, if any, compare equal, character by
character.</li>
</ul>
<p class="note">RDF Literals are distinct and distinguishable
- from RDF URI references; e.g. http://example.org as an RDF
+ from <a title="IRI">IRIs</a>; e.g. <code>http://example.org/</code> as an RDF
Literal (untyped, without a language tag) is not equal to
- http://example.org as an RDF URI reference.</p>
+ <code>http://example.org/</code> as an IRI.</p>
</section>
<section id="section-Literal-Value">
<h4>The Value Corresponding to a Typed Literal</h4>
- <p>The datatype URI refers to a <a href=
+ <p>The datatype IRI refers to a <a href=
"#section-Datatypes">datatype</a>. For XML Schema <a href=
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/#built-in-datatypes">
- built-in</a> datatypes, URIs such as
- <code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int</code> are used. The URI
+ built-in</a> datatypes, IRIs such as
+ <code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int</code> are used. The IRI
of the datatype <a href="#section-XMLLiteral"><tt>rdf:XMLLiteral</tt></a> may be used.
There may be other, implementation dependent, mechanisms by which
- URIs refer to datatypes.</p>
+ IRIs refer to datatypes.</p>
<p>The <em>value</em> associated with a typed literal is found by
- applying the lexical-to-value mapping associated with the datatype URI to
+ applying the lexical-to-value mapping associated with the datatype IRI to
the lexical form.
</p>
<p>
If the lexical form is not in
- the lexical space of the datatype associated with the datatype URI,
+ the lexical space of the datatype associated with the datatype IRI,
then no literal value can be associated with the typed literal.
Such a case, while in error, is not <em>syntactically</em> ill-formed.</p>
<!--
@@ -1204,7 +1180,7 @@
<p>
The <dfn title="blank node">blank nodes</dfn> in an RDF graph
are drawn from an infinite set.
-This set of blank nodes, the set of all <a title="URI reference">RDF URI references</a>
+This set of blank nodes, the set of all <a title="IRI">IRIs</a>
and the set of all <a title="literal">literals</a> are pairwise disjoint.
</p>
<p>
@@ -1268,7 +1244,7 @@
<blockquote>The RDF Community has used the
term “named graphs” for a number of years in various settings,
but this term is ambiguous, and often refers to what could rather
- be referred as quoted graphs, graph literals, URIs for graphs,
+ be referred as quoted graphs, graph literals, IRIs for graphs,
knowledge bases, graph stores, etc. The term “Support for Multiple
Graphs and Graph Stores” is used as a neutral term in this charter;
this term is not and should not be considered as definitive.
@@ -1305,9 +1281,12 @@
fragment identifiers when one language is embedded in another. This is
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/37">ISSUE-37</a>.</p>
- <p>RDF uses an <a title="URI reference">RDF URI
+ <p class="issue">This section requires updates to address the
+ change from <a title="RDF URI Reference">URI References</a> to <a title="IRI">IRIs</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>RDF uses an <a title="RDF URI Reference">RDF URI
Reference</a>, which may include a fragment identifier, as a
- context free identifier for a resource. RFC 2396 [[!RFC2396]] states that the meaning of a fragment
+ context free identifier for a resource. RFC 2396 states that the meaning of a fragment
identifier depends on the MIME content-type of a document, i.e.
is context dependent.</p>
<p>These apparently conflicting views are reconciled by
@@ -1558,6 +1537,7 @@
<h2>Changes from RDF 2004</h2>
<ul>
+ <li>2011-05-27: Replaced the URI References section with <a href="#section-IRIs">new section on IRIs</a>, and changed “RDF URI Reference” to “IRI” throughout the document, except in <a href="#section-fragID">section 8</a>.</li>
<li>2011-05-25: Added boxes for known WG issues throught the document</li>
<li>2011-05-25: Deleted “Structure of this Document” section, it added no value beyond the TOC</li>
<li>2011-05-25: Implemented resolution of <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/40">ISSUE-40: Skolemization advice in the RDF dcocument</a> by adding a section on <a href="#section-skolemization">Replacing Blank Nodes with IRIs</a></li>