CommentResponse:DB-17

David,

Thank you for your feedback.

Currently the SPARQL working group intends to keep this feature in both SPARQL Query and SPARQL Update.

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Andy
On behalf of the SPARQL WG

> I strongly support allowing percent encodings in the local part of a
> prefixed name:
> 
>     Allow the character, "%", follwed by two hex digits, 
>     in the local part of prefixed names.
> 
> This would solve the problem that motivated my earlier request for an
> ENCODE_FOR_LOCAL_NAME function:
>   http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Future_Work_Items
> The need for percent encoding in a local name shows up frequently when
> SPARQL Update operations dynamically create new URIs.