small edits
authorGuus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:15:54 +0100
changeset 1359 c987d7099e7f
parent 1358 501162b33a0e
child 1360 3182346a2d76
small edits
rdf-primer/index.html
--- a/rdf-primer/index.html	Wed Nov 20 00:04:13 2013 +0100
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html	Wed Nov 20 00:15:54 2013 +0100
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
           // URI of the patent status for this WG, for Rec-track documents
           // !!!! IMPORTANT !!!!
           // This is important for Rec-track documents, do not copy a patent URI from a random
-          // document unless you know what you're doing. If in doubt ask your friendly neighbourhood
+          // document unless you know what you're doing. If in doubt ask your friendly neighborhood
           // Team Contact.
           wgPatentURI:  "http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/46168/status",
 
@@ -371,12 +371,12 @@
       href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-blank-nodes">"blank 
       nodes"</a> in RDF. </p>
 
-      <p>Blank nodes can appear in the <strong>subject and object</strong> position of
-      a triple. They can be used 
+      <p>Blank nodes can appear in the <strong>subject and object
+      position</strong> of a triple. They can be used 
       to denote resources without explicitly naming them with an
       IRI.</p>
 
-      <p class="note">Blank nodes can make RDF look very complicated,
+      <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> 
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@
       graphs and associate each graph with an IRI.<p> 
 
       <p>For example, the
-      statements in <a href="#subsection-triple">the first example</a> could be grouped in two
+      statements in the <a href="#subsection-triple">first example</a> could be grouped in two
       graphs. A first graph could be provided by a social networking
       site and identified by <code>http://example.com/bob</code>:</p> 
 
@@ -851,9 +851,9 @@
    information about entailment regimes and semantic extensions
    please consult the RDF Semantics document [[RDF11-MT]]. </p> 
 
-   <p class="note">As we say in the earlier <a
-   href="#section-rurtle-example">Turtle example</a> we could have
-   used the shorthand <code>ex:bob a foaf:Person</a> for the example
+   <p class="note">As we saw in the earlier <a
+   href="#section-rurtle-example">Turtle example</a> (line 9) we could have
+   used the shorthand <code>ex:bob a foaf:Person</code> for the example
    above. </p>
    
    <p>The semantics of RDF also tell us that the triple:</p>
@@ -861,23 +861,22 @@
    <code>ex:Bob ex:Age "forty"^^xsd:integer . </code>
    </pre>
    <p>leads to a logical inconsistency, because the literal does not
-    abide by the constraints associated with the XML Schema datatype <a
+    abide by the constraints defined for the XML Schema datatype <a
     href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#integer">integer</a>.</p>
 
    <p class="note">RDF tools may not recognize all datatypes. As a
    minimum, tools are required to support the datatypes for string literals
-   and language-taged literals.</p>
+   and language-tagged literals.</p>
 
    <p>Unlike many other data
-   modeling languages, RDF Schema allows the same entity to be used both as
-   class and as property. Therefore, RDF semantics views the following graph
+   modeling languages, RDF Schema allows the same entity to be used
+   both as a class and as a property. Therefore, RDF semantics views the following graph
    as valid:</p>
    <pre>
    <code>ex:Marriage rdf:type rdf:Property .</code>
    <code>ex:Marriage rdf:type rdfs:Class . </code>
    </pre>
 
-
 </section>
 
    <section id="section-data">