- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@talis.com>
 - Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:21 +0100
 - To: "Buikstra, A.P.F." <a.p.f.buikstra@student.vu.nl>
 - CC: "public-sparql-dev@w3.org" <public-sparql-dev@w3.org>
 
Try:
<http://dbpedia.org/page/Orange_%28fruit%29>
1/ "(" and ")" aren't allowed in URIs, nor in prefixed names.  Browsers 
kindly encode them into %28 and %29
For example: go to
http://dbpedia.org/page/Orange_(fruit)
with Firefox and then cut and paste the contents of the URL bar into a 
text editor.  You get %28-%29 (in FF 3.6 at least)
2/ This is an encoding, not an escape sequence - the URIs really do have 
"%-2-8" and "%-2-9" in them.
3/ SPARQL does not allow % in a prefixed name so you'll have to use
WHERE
{<http://dbpedia.org/page/Orange_%28fruit%29>
  ?p ?o . }
or
BASE <http://dbpedia.org/page/>
SELECT ?p ?o
WHERE { <Orange_%28fruit%29> ?p ?o . }
The fact that <http://dbpedia.org/page/Orange_(fruit)> works is more 
luck than anything else :-)
	Andy
On 24/06/2010 12:08, Buikstra, A.P.F. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is straightforward, but I didn't find it through Google. Actually, I ran into someone with the same problem, but there was no answer in the thread.
>
> How should I escape things like the parenthesis in:
> 	PREFIX dbpedia:<http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
> 	SELECT ?p ?o
> 	WHERE { dbpedia:Orange_(fruit) ?p ?o . }
>
> (Gives error about "(" )
>
> Note that the following does work:
> 	SELECT ?p ?o
> 	WHERE {<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Orange_(fruit)>  ?p ?o . }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arjon Buikstra
>
> P.S. Thanks for the comments on my Union question, it really helped to clarify the problem!
>
Received on Thursday, 24 June 2010 13:26:58 UTC