typos in RDF/XML example
authorGuus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>
Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:12:40 +0100
changeset 1917 d67815dc364e
parent 1916 60fb6507cb48
child 1918 1c5dea2ecf99
typos in RDF/XML example
rdf-primer/index.html
--- a/rdf-primer/index.html	Sun Feb 16 23:02:25 2014 +0100
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html	Sun Feb 16 23:12:40 2014 +0100
@@ -1209,7 +1209,9 @@
 
 <h3>RDF/XML</h3>
 
-<p>RDF/XML [[RDF-XML]] is an XML syntax for RDFD. When RDF was original developed in the late 1990s, RDF/XML was its only syntax for RDF. RDF/XML. The RDF/XML example below encodes the
+<p>RDF/XML [[RDF11-XML]] is an XML syntax for RDFD. When RDF was
+original developed in the late 1990s, RDF/XML was its only syntax for
+RDF. RDF/XML. The RDF/XML example below encodes the 
 RDF graph depicted in <a href="#fig4">Fig.&nbsp;4</a>:</p>
 
 <pre class="example" id="rdf-xml-example">
@@ -1239,24 +1241,25 @@
 <code>rdf:RDF</code> (lines 2 and 20). The attributes of the
 <code>rdf:RDF</code> start tag (lines 3-6) provide a shorthand for writing down
 names of XML elements and attributes. The XML element
-<code>rdf;Description</code> (short for
+<code>rdf:Description</code> (short for
 <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Description</code>)
-is used to define sets of triples, in which the subject is the IRI
-specified in the <code>about</code> attribute.  The first description
+is used to define sets of triples that have as subject the IRI
+specified by the <code>about</code> attribute.  The first description
 block (line 7-12) has four sub-elements. The name of the subelement is
-the property IRI, e.g., <code>rdf:type</code> (line 8). Here, each
-subelement represents one triple. In case the object is also an IRI
+an IRI representing an RDF proerty, e.g., <code>rdf:type</code> (line 8). Here, each
+subelement represents one triple. In cases where the object of the
+triple is also an IRI
 the property subelement has no content and 
-the object IRI is specified using the <code>rdf;resource</code>
-attribute (lines 8, 10-11, 15 and 18). In case the object of the
-triple is a literal the literal value is given as content of the
+the object IRI is specified using the <code>rdf:resource</code>
+attribute (lines 8, 10-11, 15 and 18). When the object of the
+triple is a literal the literal value is entered as content of the
 property element (lines 9 and 14). The datatype is specified as
 attribute of the property element (line 9). If the datatype is
 omitted (line 14) and no language tag is present the literal is
-considered to have the default datatype <code>xsd:string</code>.
+considered to have the datatype <code>xsd:string</code>.
 
 <p>The example shows the baseline syntax; please consult the RDF/XML
-document [[RDF-XML for a more in-depth treatment of the syntax. It
+document [[RDF11-XML]] for a more in-depth treatment of the syntax. It
 might seem strange that the attribute values contain full IRIs,
 despite the fact that for some of these namespace prefixes were
 defined. This is because these prefixes can only be used for XML