[Editorial] Concise definition of "blank node" needed

I noticed this incorrect explanation on the web, of "what is a blank
node":
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa303696.aspx

Trying to be a good netizen, I was about to send a correction to MS,
with a pointer to an official definition.  But when I looked at the
current section on bnodes in the current RDF concepts draft
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-blank-nodes 
and the previous RDF Concepts document
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#dfn-blank-node 
and in the old primer
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/#structuredproperties
I'm not seeing anywhere a concise statement that actually says what a
bnode *is*.  I think it would helpful to have one somewhere, probably
here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-blank-nodes 

Thanks

-- 
David Booth, Ph.D.
http://dbooth.org/

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Received on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:04:05 UTC