Small changes from mischat: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2011Jul/0024.html
--- a/rdf-turtle/index.html Fri Jul 08 11:14:04 2011 -0700
+++ b/rdf-turtle/index.html Fri Jul 08 13:01:19 2011 -0700
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
</script></pre>
- <p>Literals <span class="non-issue">, prefixed names</span>and IRIs may also contain escapes to encode surrounding
+ <p>Literals <span class="non-issue">, prefixed names</span> and IRIs may also contain escapes to encode surrounding
syntax, non-printable characters and to encode Unicode characters by
codepoint number (although they may also be given directly, encoded
as UTF-8). The character escapes are:</p>
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
<p>Decimal integers may be written directly and correspond to
the XML Schema Datatype
- <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#integer">xsd:integer</a>.
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#integer">xsd:integer</a>
in both syntax and datatype IRI.</p>
<pre class="example"><script type="text/turtle">
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
<pre class="example"><script type="text/turtle">
# this is a complete turtle document
-@prefix : <http://example.org/foo> .
+@prefix : <http://example.org/foo> .
# the value of this triple is the RDF collection blank node
:subject :predicate ( :a : b : c ) .
@@ -845,11 +845,14 @@
<h3>Turtle compared to Notation 3 (Informative)</h3>
<p>While Notation 3 (<acronym title="Notation 3">N3</acronym>) syntax played a large role in the creation of Turtle
- they are not strictly compatable. There are a number of diffrences in
- escaping, encoding and structure. N3 triples are a superset of RDF triples.
+ they are not strictly compatable. There are a number of differences in
+ escaping, encoding and structure. N3 triples are a superset of RDF triples.
In particular, N3 formulae (graphs) may be the subject or object of N3 triples.
For example here, the formula with <code>_:Bob a foaf:Person</code> is the object of another arc:</p>
- <pre>_:Bob ex:said { _:Bob a foaf:Person } .</pre>
+ <pre>_:Bob ex:said { _:Bob a foaf:Person } .</pre>
+
+ <p>In addition, Literals are allowed in the subject position. For example:</p>
+ <pre>"Bob" ex:said "Hi Bob" .</pre>
<p>Following is a partial list of syntactic features in N3 which are not in Turtle:</p>
@@ -881,7 +884,7 @@
<h3>Turtle compared to SPARQL (Informative)</h3>
<p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-rdf-sparql-query-20080115/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a> (<acronym title="SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language">SPARQL</acronym>) [[RDF-SPARQL-QUERY]] uses a Turtle/N3 style syntax for its <a href="../../../2009/sparql/docs/query-1.1/rq25#rTriplesBlock">TriplesBlock production</a>.
- This production differs from the Turtle langage in that:
+ This production differs from the Turtle language in that:
</p>
<ol>