--- a/rdf-primer/index.html Wed Nov 27 15:00:07 2013 +0100
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html Wed Nov 27 15:47:53 2013 +0100
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
<Bob> <is born on> <the 4th of July 1990>.
<Bob> <is interested in> <the Mona Lisa>.
<Leonardo da Vinci> <is the creator of> <the Mona Lisa>.
- <This video document> <is about> <the Mona Lisa>
+ <Video xyz> <is about> <the Mona Lisa>
</pre>
<p>Resources typically occur in multiple
@@ -283,10 +283,12 @@
<figcaption>Informal graph of the sample triples</figcaption>
</figure>
+ <!--
<p>In the following sections we discuss the three basic constructs
that appear in triples, namely IRIs, literals and blank
nodes, in more detail. </p>
-
+ -->
+
</section>
<section id="subsection-IRI">
@@ -367,10 +369,10 @@
<p>IRIs and literals together provide the basic material for
writing down RDF statements. In addition, it is sometimes handy to
- be able to talk about anonymous resources. For example, we might
- want to state that "the Mona Lisa was created by X" and that "X
- was born in Vinci".
- Anonymous resources such as "X" are called <a
+ be able to talk about resources which have no identifier. For example, we might
+ want to state that the Mona Lisa painting has in its background
+ an unidentified tree which we know to be of a cypress tree.
+ Resources such as the unidentified cypress tree are called <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-blank-nodes">"blank
nodes"</a> in RDF. </p>
@@ -379,10 +381,12 @@
to denote resources without explicitly naming them with an
IRI.</p>
+ <!--
<p class="note">Blank nodes can make RDF look complicated,
especially when one consults details about blank nodes in the RDF Concepts
[[RDF11-CONCEPTS]] and RDF Semantics [[RDF11-MT]] documents. It
should be noted that many RDF users in practice don't use blank nodes. </p>
+ -->
<p class="issue">Consider adding examples (in an appendix) of
simple use of blank nodes.</p>