Unable to include ":" in a uri

[htanya]

I am currently experiencing the issue of not being able to include ":" in a uri when appending in front of the value. It works fine when the cells content is text, but not when I want the cells content to be a uri.

Example: I would like to have source:value, but as long as I use ":", I cannot produce a uri. However, I can produce a uri if I remove ":", ex. sourcevalue or use a different seperator "_", ex. source_value.

How I am selecting my value: "namespace:"+value

[fadmaa]

Currently, you need to enter the full URI you cannot use the shorthand namespace: + value because it is interpreted as relative URI and resolved against the base URI

Adding support for namespaces URI sounds like a good idea for future extension however it is tricky and needs to be implemented with care to avoid accidentally interpreting some value as namespace:+value although it is meant to be resolved against the base URI

[micheldumontier]

We are indeed specifying a full URI of the form - http://bio2rdf.org/cardiotox:

[fadmaa]

then that should work. Can you provide an example of a value and the expression you used? may be also try: 'http://bio2rdf.org/cardiotox:' + value.urlify()

[tfmorris]

Not really relevant to the problem at hand, but does urlify() do something different than the standard escape('url')? If so, what are the differences?

[fadmaa]

urlify does not actually encode values. It makes string more "friendly" as part of URIs by (1) changing to lower case (2) replacing spaces with dashes (-) (3) removing characters that are not digits, letters, dash or underscore

One still needs to use escape if a value needs to be encoded

[htanya]

Thank you for your suggestion, 'http://bio2rdf.org/cardiotox:' + value.urlify(), it works!