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JS RDF store with SPARQL support
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Literals with escaped characters loaded from N3 cannot be referenced with SPAR(Q|U)L #54

Open bollwyvl opened 11 years ago

bollwyvl commented 11 years ago

When literals get OIDs from being loaded from N3, they will be added to the literalsToOID hash with any escaped characters, \n``\t``"``\b``\r``\, de-referenced.

Consider this triple, stored in a text file:

<http://foo> <http://bar> "baz\nbaz" .

loaded like this:

var triple;
$.get("sample.n3", function(txt){ triple = txt });

then added to a store like this:

store.load('text/turtle', triple, function(){})

There is no way whatsoever to delete this data with SPAR*L:

store.execute('DELETE DATA {' + triple + '}', function(){})
">> Error unregistering quad"
">> Cannot read property '1' of undefined"
">> ERROR unregistering quad"

Whereas if the same triple is loaded via SPAR*L, it's fine:

store.execute('INSERT DATA {' + triple + '}', function(){})
store.execute('DELETE DATA {' + triple + '}', function(){})

My work around is to manually transform incoming n3 to SPAR*L. I am not supporting the python-like """ string format, but it is good enough, I guess, as I control how they are constructed, but this seems like a pretty tough thing to handle if you don't control both sides.

bollwyvl commented 10 years ago

This is still a even after the upgrade to the n3 parser #61.