- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:57:34 +0100
- To: "Wood, Jamey" <Jamey.Wood@nrel.gov>
- Cc: "public-sparql-dev@w3.org" <public-sparql-dev@w3.org>
Hi Jamey, On 25 Aug 2010, at 19:54, Wood, Jamey wrote: > Is it possible to escape special characters in abbreviated URIs in a > SPARQL query? For example, how could one perform this query against > Dbpedia: > > PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/> > DESCRIBE dbpedia:Newark%2C_New_Jersey > > I've tried various things, but so far have only been able to make it > work by using a non-abbreviated URI: > > DESCRIBE <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Newark%2C_New_Jersey> I believe that's the only way. Abbreviated URIs only allow a very limited set of characters and don't have an escaping mechanism. Or, you could say, the escaping mechanism is to use the full URI. Best, Richard > > Thanks, > Jamey >
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