Re: Comments on 17 December 2013 WD of RDF 1.1 Primer

On 03-02-14 20:12, Thomas Baker wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:35:22PM +0100, Guus Schreiber wrote:
>> Thanks again for your comments. Responses inline.
>
> Thank you, Guus.  I am happy with your edits and explanations!
>
> To follow up on just one point:
>
>>> --  "The format of these statements is simple.  It always has the
>>>     following form:"
>>>
>>>      The use of "format" and "form" seems inconsistent, and the second
>>>      sentence could perhaps simply be dropped, leaving just:
>>>
>>>          The form of these statements is simple:
>
> As written, the sentence in effect says: "The format of the statements has the
> form".  The notion of the _format_ of statements (instead of statements
> themselves) having a form seems awkward, and "format" makes me think of
> concrete syntaxes.  How about:
>
>      The template for such statements is simple:
>
> But I will not press the point...

Tom,

Now changed to:

[[
   The format of these statements is simple. A statement always has the 
following structure:
]]

I hope you find that better.

Best,
Guus


>
> Tom
>
>> Thanks again! Very helpful indeed. New ED is at [1].
>>
>> Guus
>>
>> [1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-primer/index.html#
>

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