--- a/rdf-turtle/n-triples.html Thu Dec 05 21:56:12 2013 -0800
+++ b/rdf-turtle/n-triples.html Fri Dec 06 10:17:57 2013 +0000
@@ -213,17 +213,19 @@
<section id="canonical-ntriples">
<h3>A Canonical form of N-Triples</h3>
- <p>A canonical form of N-Triples has the following additional
- constraints on layout:</p>
+ <p>This section defined a canonical form of N-Triples which has
+ less variability in layout. The grammar for the language is the
+ same. Implementers are encouraged to produce this form.</p>
+ <p>Canonical N-Triples has the following additional constraints on layout:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Whitespace following <code>subject</code>, <code>predicate</code>, and <code>object</code> MUST be a single space, (<code>U+0020</code>) all other locations that allow whitespace MUST be empty.</li>
+ <li>The whitespace following <code>subject</code>, <code>predicate</code>, and <code>object</code> MUST be a single space, (<code>U+0020</code>) all other locations that allow whitespace MUST be empty.</li>
<li>There MUST be no comments.</li>
- <li><code>HEX</code> MUST use only uppercase letters (<code>[A-F]</code>).</li>
+ <li><code>HEX</code> MUST use only uppercase letters (<code>[A-F]</code>).</li>
<li>Characters MUST NOT be represented by <code>UCHAR</code>.</li>
<li>Within <a href="#grammar-production-STRING_LITERAL_QUOTE">STRING_LITERAL_QUOTE</a>,
only characters not allowed directly in
- <a href="#grammar-production-STRING_LITERAL_QUOTE">STRING_LITERAL_QUOTE</a> (<code>U+0022</code>, <code>U+005C</code>, <code>U+000A</code>, <code>U+000D</code>) use
- <code>ECHAR</code>.
+ <a href="#grammar-production-STRING_LITERAL_QUOTE">STRING_LITERAL_QUOTE</a> (<code>U+0022</code>, <code>U+005C</code>, <code>U+000A</code>, <code>U+000D</code>)
+should use <code>ECHAR</code>.
For all other characters, <code>ECHAR</code> MUST NOT be used.</li>
</ul>
</section>